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>>1784775
>Parmenides’ proem is no epistemological allegory of enlightenment but a topographically specific description of a mystical journey to the halls of Night. In Hesiod, the “horrible dwelling of dark Night” (Th. 744) is where the goddesses Night and Day alternately reside as the other traverses the sky above the Earth. Both Parmenides’ and Hesiod’s conception of this place have their precedent in the Babylonian mythology of the sun god’s abode.

Read the fucking poem. Read a fucking book on greek culture. Read M L West’s East face of helicon. Read pic related.

Where is Parmenides’ logical presentation? We only have his poem, sure it can be logically analysed, as Plato will do in Sophist proving that nonbeing IS just as being is, but this is another issue. The fact is that the logical and rational analysis is supported by and derived from supra-rational experiences. Even mainstream academic sources confirm that as I posted above.