“One without a second”: advaita vedanta's support to Parmenides' strict monism
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https://doi.org/10.34019/2237-6151.2021.v18.34861Keywords:
On Nature, Parmenides, Shankaracharya, monism, advaitaAbstract
The Unity of Being presented to the Western world by Parmenides in On Nature had a profound impact on subsequent philosophical thought, notably on Platonism and Neo-Platonism. Over the centuries, Parmenides' monism has been reinterpreted not in a strict sense, but as a unity in multiplicity, thus circumventing a paradox with the sensible world. Based on the uniformity of thought contained in On Nature, I intend to reinforce the strict character of the monism contained in the poem, using Advaita (literally “not two”, in Sanskrit) philosophy to sustain and deepen the original Parmedean vision, free from the apparent contradictions between one and multiple.
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