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RESEARCH ARTICLE

A Study on the Concept of “Non-Existent” (mê on) in Pre-Socratic Philosophy

Mehmet Türkan1
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1 İnönü Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Felsefe Bölümü 44280, Malatya, Türkiye
BIJP 2024, 14(3), 617–637; https://doi.org/10.29228/beytulhikme.77817
Received: 8 August 2024 | Published online: 23 September 2024
© 2024 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

When we turn to Pre-Socratic philosophy in terms of the ontology of the “non- being” (mê on), the concept appears to us in two aspects; as the subject of pure logic or physics. “Non- being” corresponds to a logical category that emerges in dialectical unity with “being” (to on) in pure logic, and to the “void” that makes the movement of the full body possible in the physical world, which is opposed to the full. In the first sense, the person who ignited the fuse of the discussions is Heraclitus. In the Heraclitian doctrine, the “non- being”, which forms a dialectical unity with the “ being”, states the fact that things lose their identity in the world of formation and are no longer what they are. On the other hand, in the Eleatic doctrine led by Xenophanes, it emphasizes a logical category that manifests itself in absolute opposition to the “ being” on the plane of pure logic in order to get rid of the linguistic paradoxes created by the world of formation that cannot maintain its identity. In the second sense, “non- being” is the expression of the “void” whose quality is corporeality and which makes the movement of “being” possible in discussions about the physical world, as it comes to the fore in the Atomist doctrine. It is hoped that the article, which focuses on the ontology of the “non- being” from these perspectives in Pre-Socratic philosophy from Heraclitus to Gorgias, will contribute especially to the readings of Plato and Aristotle, and to the discussions of “negation” and “nothingness” in modern philosophy.

Keywords
Being
non-being
genesis
unity
multiplicity
void.
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