- The
Eleatics were a
group of pre-Socratic
philosophers and
school of
thought in the 5th
century BC
centered around the
ancient Gr****
colony of Elea (Ancient...
- the universe. Leucippus's
atomism was a
direct response to
Eleatic philosophy. The
Eleatics believed that nothingness, or the void,
cannot exist in its...
- The
Eleatics'
focus on
Being through means of
logic initiated the
philosophical discipline of ontology.
Other philosophers influenced by the
Eleatics (such...
- belief, an
early instance of epistemology.
Later philosophers such as the
Eleatics and the
Pyrrhonists saw
Xenophanes as the
founder of
their doctrines, and...
- is that all
beings share a set of
essential features.
According to the
Eleatic principle, "power is the mark of being",
meaning that only
entities with...
-
Earth also
seems to have been
known to Parmenides. As the
first of the
Eleatics,
Parmenides is
generally credited with
being the
philosopher who first...
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naturalism Taoism Yangism Greco-Roman
Presocratic Ionians Pythagoreans Eleatics Atomists Sophists Cyrenaics Cynicism Eretrian school Megarian school Academy...
- logos, when he
argued in his work On Non-Being,
possibly parodying the
Eleatics, that
being cannot exist or be communicated.
According to one author, Gorgias...
- (Silv 5.3.127). Parmenides,
philosopher and
founder of the
Eleatics Zeno of Elea,
Eleatic philosopher known for his
paradoxes Wikimedia Commons has media...
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Southern Italy (Magna Graecia). He was a
student of
Parmenides and one of the
Eleatics. Zeno
defended his instructor's
belief in monism, the idea that only one...
