Parmenides' complete rejection of time

Ronald C. Hoy

pp. 105-129

in: L. N. Oaklander (ed), The importance of time, Berlin, Springer, 2001

Abstract

Parmenides is often credited with discovering the category of timeless truths, and he is sometimes praised or blamed (along with Plato) for asserting that what is real can transcend time.¹ But besides positing a timeless reality for eternal truths to be about, Parmenides finds fault with beliefs about time and argues that time is not real: if temporal thoughts are inherently contradictory then reality cannot be temporal. In claiming time to Plato, Kant, and J.M. McTaggart) who find something unreal about time.

Cited authors

Kant Immanuel

Plato

Parmenides