Eleatism: to the characteristics of monistic metaphysical idealism (based on the views of representatives of the Eleatic school and the philosophy of G. Berkeley)
https://doi.org/10.26907/2079-5912.2023.3.79-85
Abstract
The author raises the problem of the general philosophical attitudes of the thinkers of the Eleatic school and George Berkeley. Their similarity is not limited to the external label of «idealists» or the denial of the usual ideas: about multiplicity, movement, matter. The article presents arguments in favor of the existence of a single system of thinking common to Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno and Bishop Berkeley. This allows us to talk about a special philosophical approach, for which the author proposes to fix the term «eleatism», defined as monistic metaphysical idealism. The basic intuition of eleatism is the strict identity of being and thinking. Only true reality is recognized as comprehensible, while the incomprehensible (unthinkable, unimaginable) does not exist. It is the principle of non–contradiction that is central to the discourse of the Eleaticists; it also defines the key opposition for this philosophical direction of the true knowable being and the world of opinion, filled with errors of sensory perception, fixed in the mind in the form of linguistic chimeras. The analysis of the key positions in the philosophy of the representatives of the Eleatic school and George Berkeley, carried out in this article, shows that their philosophical thinking was guided by intuitions common to eleatism.
Keywords
Eleatics,
Zeno,
Berkeley,
intuitions,
aporias,
being,
nothingness,
paradoxes,
consistency,
monism,
idealism,
metaphysics,
dialectics,
matter
About the Author
S. V. Rybakov
Kazan Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Rybakov Sergei Vladimirovich, post–graduate student,Institute of Social Philosophical Sciences and Mass Communications, Department of Social Philosophy
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Rybakov S.V. Eleatism: to the characteristics of monistic metaphysical idealism (based on the views of representatives of the Eleatic school and the philosophy of G. Berkeley). The Kazan Socially-Humanitarian Bulletin. 2023;(3 (60)):79-85. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2079-5912.2023.3.79-85
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