The Immovable and Its Ruin

This paper presents an immanent critique of Parmenides and Plato, the foundational figures of Western metaphysics of fixity. Against Parmenides, it argues that the immovable One collapses through performative self-contradiction and fails to explain the illusion of change. Against Plato, it demonstrates that the Form of the Good falls into tautology as a self-grounding absolute and remains vulnerable to the Third Man regress. Both attempts to secure a fixed absolute ultimately fail on their own terms. The paper concludes that the only coherent ground is the unfixable One—a dynamic, self-differentiating ground whose essence is the impossibility of fixation. This manuscript is a revised and expanded English version of the author’s original Korean draft from the project The Resurrection of God. Core ideas and philosophical direction are entirely my own. Claude AI was used for translation and stylistic refinement. This is a preliminary draft.