Parmenides

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cricketer

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is best viewed not only as the most original and important philosopher before Socrates but as the first extant author deserving to be called a philosopher in a present-day sense of the word.

From this inheritance contemporary philosophers have continued to draw profit. Parmenides is their earliest ancestor whose work contains explicit and self-conscious argumentation. The severe conceptual difficulties posed for the first time in his verses are of perennial interest, and many of them remain in the forefront of discussion today. Recent study has thus brought his thought, in the words of another critic, "astonishingly close to some contemporary preoccupations." He should be viewed not only as "the most original and important philosopher before Socrates" but as the first extant author deserving to be called a philosopher in a present-day sense of the word.

is their earliest ancestor whose work contains explicit and self-conscious argumentation.

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