Quiz: Parmenides

When was Parmenides born?

• About 515 BC, Elea, in southern Italy.
• About 490 BC, Abdera, Greece.
• About 280 BC, of the royal house of Han, China.
• About 4 BC, Cordoba, Spain.

When did Parmenides die?

• About 450 BC.
• About 420 BC.
• About 270 BC.
• 270, in Campania, Italy.

What is Parmenides known for?

• The poem On Nature, which reasons that what is cannot come from what is not, so change and plurality are illusion.
• The orations, the letters, and philosophical works like De re publica and De officiis that taught Rome to think in Greek categories.
• The Outlines of Pyrrhonism and Against the Mathematicians, the armory of skeptical argument for two thousand years.
• The claim that human nature is bad, that ritual reshapes it, and that Heaven is just nature running its course.

Which school of thought was Parmenides part of?

• Eleatic school, the strict logic of being.
• Confucianism, its realist wing.
• Confucianism, its idealist wing.
• Stoicism, in its Roman practical form.

True or false: Greek thinker of Elea in southern Italy who argued, against the senses, that being is one, whole, and unchanging.

• True
• False