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Heraclitus and Parmenides: Idea of Change
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The origins of Western philosophy lie with a set of men whose extraordinary contributions date as far back as 600 BC. Frequently, they are identified as Presocratics because these truth-seekers are predecessors of Socrates, the gifted Athenian thinker who greatly influenced the course of Western philosophy through his exceptional apprentice Plato. Mere fragments of the work of the Presocratics remain. Although limited information of their writing exists, some portions of their books and allusions to their writings in other thinkers’ books provides us adequate knowledge of their ideas (Horner 18). These men attempted to explain the true nature of reality.
Two of these Presocratics, Heraclitus and Parmenides, will be compared. Each
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