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Parmenides in Chains

[On the Sources of the Metaphysical Truths]

“Necessity does not allow itself to be persuaded.”

—Aristotle, Met., 1015A, 32

“The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of its own powerlessness and of the impossibility of fighting against Necessity.”

—Epictetus, Dissert., II, 11