Parmenides - Nothing Comes from Nothing

2,500 years ago, around 525 B.C., Paremenides was one of the earliest great Greek philosophers. Pre-dating Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle by 200 years, his only known work is a poem entitled “On Nature” of which only fragrments survive. In it, he concluded that what ‘is’ has necessarily always been because ‘nothing can come from nothing’.

This was a great philosophical/ontological question but it stopped one step short of its logical conclusion: if “being” cannot come from ‘nothing’, where did “being” come from in the first place?