Esse: Novum Tractatus

In the spirit of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, this study is a consideration of some of the philosophical implications of Parmenides’ being which he said: is and cannot not be, is complete, undifferentiated, and endures.
Introduction, Materials and Methods, and Conclusion: This is a treatise whose method is comprised of a series of questions and answers, and sub-questions and answers about Parmenides’ notion of being in the numbered paragraph style that Wittgenstein used in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The conclusion is that there is no conclusion because the discourse on being that is and cannot not be, is complete, undifferentiated, and endures is like the thing in itself, something that we will never completely know, understand, or fully explain.

Keywords: Being; Heidegger; Parmenides; Wittgenstein.

Note: capitalized Being is the existent, the Being; lower case being is the state of the existent, the being of being.