Parmenides: Fight Club

According to the ancient Greek philosopher Parmenides, thinking thoughts are real. If so wouldn't in the movie Fight Club the main character, Edward, not really be delusional? A movie where Edward, an insomniac, makes up the friend Tyler Durden in order to get him though his frustrations of not sleeping. Throughout this movie the two become very close, only to find out in the end that Tyler is never really there...or is he? If Edward was thinking of Tyler would not he be real? Since Tyler is a thought, he is created and therefore is real. Where is the boarder of real and not real when our soul, according to Plato and Socrates, is a separate entity from our body, therefore we cant see our soul; but it is real and there. Tyler, never seen by anyone other then Edward, must be real. Tyler is a thought but is still in existence since he was thought up or in other words "introduced" to Edward. Maybe Edward is not crazy of thinking that Tyler is real, Edward could just be considered privileged to have the opportunity to have met Tyler, and the only Being fortunate enough to see him.