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Parmenides of Elea (/ p ɑːr ˈ m ɛ n ɪ d iː z ... ˈ ɛ l i ə /; Greek: Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl. late sixth or early fifth century BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia. Parmenides was born in the Greek colony of Elea, from a wealthy and illustrious family.
Feb 8, 2008 · Related Entries. 1. Life and Writings. The dramatic occasion of Plato’s dialogue, Parmenides , is a fictionalized visit to Athens by the eminent Parmenides and his younger associate, Zeno, to attend the festival of the Great Panathenaea.
A comprehensive overview of the life, poem, and philosophy of Parmenides, the Presocratic Greek philosopher who is considered the father of metaphysics and logic. Learn about his arguments for the unity and unchangeability of reality, his cosmological account, and his influence on Plato and other thinkers.
Apr 28, 2011 · Parmenides (l.c. 485 BCE) of Elea was a Greek philosopher from the colony of Elea in southern Italy. He is considered among the most important of the Pre-Socratic...
- Joshua J. Mark
- Parmenides was a Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher who lived c. 485 BCE and claimed that existence was a unified whole, eternal and unchanging, and so...
- Parmenides claimed that nothing could come from nothing and so existence was uncreated and eternal and what people interpreted as "change" in life...
- Parmenides is famous for refuting the theories on First Cause of the earlier Pre-Socratic philosophers by claiming "change" was impossible because...
- Parmenides' most famous student was Zeno of Elea (l.c. 465 BCE) who proved his philosophical claims on the unity of existence through logical parad...
Parmenides was a Greek philosopher of Elea in southern Italy who founded Eleaticism, one of the leading pre-Socratic schools of Greek thought. His general teaching has been diligently reconstructed from the few surviving fragments of his principal work, a lengthy three-part verse composition titled
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Aug 17, 2007 · Plato’s Parmenides consists in a critical examination of the theory of forms, a set of metaphysical and epistemological doctrines articulated and defended by the character Socrates in the dialogues of Plato’s middle period (principally Phaedo , Republic II–X, Symposium ).
Then, said Parmenides, if you say that everything else participates in the ideas, must you not say either that everything is made up of thoughts, and that all things think; or that they are thoughts but have no thought? The latter view, Parmenides, is no more rational than the previous one.
