Philosopher · Classical antiquity · Italy
Parmenides
c. 515–c. 450 BC
Greek thinker of Elea in southern Italy who argued, against the senses, that being is one, whole, and unchanging. His poem On Nature survives in large fragments. He lived about 515 to 450 BC and founded the Eleatic school.
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- Born
- About 515 BC, Elea, in southern Italy.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Parmenides
- Died
- About 450 BC.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Parmenides
- School
- Eleatic school, the strict logic of being.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Parmenides
- Known for
- The poem On Nature, which reasons that what is cannot come from what is not, so change and plurality are illusion.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Parmenides
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