An Appetite for Knowledge

I have argued elsewhere that ideas of Being, of the nature of reality, and the divine, were once understood in terms of conjectures about the reality (or otherwise) of the one and the many. These conjectures follow on from the initial question, which is: why is there something rather than nothing? Plato’s argument, following on from propositions made by Parmenides, who declared that we should look only to the one, and that only the one truly is real, is the most sophisticated of all discussio...