- 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...
- pre-Socratic Gr**** philosopher. He was a
student of
Parmenides and one of the
Eleatics. Born in Elea, Zeno
defended his instructor's
belief in monism, the idea...
- period, most
likely written in 360 BC. In it the interlocutors, led by
Eleatic Stranger employ the
method of
division in
order to
classify and define...
-
question of what all
entities in the
widest sense have in common. The
Eleatic principle is one
answer to this question: it
states that
being is inextricably...
- of
Western philosophy. He is also
considered to be the
founder of the
Eleatic school of philosophy,
which also
included Zeno of Elea and
Melissus of...
-
exists between the atoms. He
developed his
philosophy as a
response to the
Eleatics, who
believed that all
things are one and the void does not exist. Leucippus's...
- of
philosophy that
culminated in Pyrrhonism,
possibly an
influence on
Eleatic philosophy, and a
precursor to Epicurus'
total break between science and...
-
following that
advocated that the
universe was made up of numbers. The
Eleatic school (Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, and Melissus)
followed in the 5th century...
- the home of the
philosophers Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, as well as the
Eleatic school of
which they were a part. The site of the
acropolis of ancient...
- 5th
century BC) was the
third and last
member of the
ancient school of
Eleatic philosophy,
whose other members included Zeno and Parmenides.
Little is...