The Eleatics were a group of pre-Socratic philosophers and school of thought in the 5th century BC centered around the ancient Greek colony of Elea (Ancient...
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Leucippus (section Eleatics and the void)
the universe. Leucippus's atomism was a direct response to Eleatic philosophy. The Eleatics believed that nothingness, or the void, cannot exist in its...
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The Eleatics' focus on Being through means of logic initiated the philosophical discipline of ontology. Other philosophers influenced by the Eleatics (such...
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Xenophanes (section Influence on Eleatics)
belief, an early instance of epistemology. Later philosophers such as the Eleatics and the Pyrrhonists saw Xenophanes as the founder of their doctrines, and...
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Ontology (redirect from Eleatic principle)
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...
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Parmenides (redirect from Parmenides the Eleatic)
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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(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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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...
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Heraclitus (section Eleatics)
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...
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playwright and moralist. Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 BC). Of the Eleatics. Reflected on the concept of Being. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (c. 500 –...
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Zeno of Elea (category Eleatic philosophers)
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...
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Elis Elea, ancient name of an Italian-Greek colony, now known as Velia Eleatics, a school of pre-Socratic philosophers at Elea Elea in Aeolis, an ancient...
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philosophy of - Egalitarianism - Egocentrism - Egoism - Egoist anarchism - Eleatics - Eliminative materialism - Emanationism - Emergentism - Emotivism - Empiricism...
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him as a successor to the Eleatics, hence his philosophy was seen as a fusion of Eleatic and Socratic thought. Thus, the Eleatic idea of "The One" was identified...
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Plato's own metaphysical theories. Plato's Sophist dialogue includes an Eleatic stranger. These ideas about change and permanence, or becoming and Being...
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was not attempting to make a point about infinity. As a member of the Eleatics school which regarded motion as an illusion, he saw it as a mistake to...
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Ancient Greek philosophy (section Eleatic philosophy)
of philosophy that culminated in Pyrrhonism, possibly an influence on Eleatic philosophy, and a precursor to Epicurus' total break between science and...
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Melissus of Samos (category Eleatic philosophers)
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...
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