Parmenides
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Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea known for his doctrine that reality is unchanging and that all change and plurality are illusory.
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| instanceOf |
Ancient Greek philosopher
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metaphysician → pre-Socratic philosopher → |
| associatedWith |
Elea
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| birthPlace |
Elea
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| citizenship |
Ancient Greece
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| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Italy (Magna Graecia)
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| discussedBy |
Aristotle
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Plotinus → Simplicius of Cilicia → |
| era |
Classical antiquity
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Pre-Socratic philosophy → |
| gender |
male
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| influenced |
Aristotle
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Melissus of Samos → Neoplatonism → Plato → Western metaphysics → Zeno of Elea → |
| influencedBy |
Xenophanes
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| knownFor |
doctrine that reality is unchanging
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poem "On Nature" → view that change is illusory → view that plurality is illusory → |
| language |
Ancient Greek
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| mainInterest |
epistemology
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logic → metaphysics → ontology → |
| mentionedIn |
Plato's dialogue "Parmenides"
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Plato's dialogue "Sophist" → Plato's dialogue "Theaetetus" → |
| notableIdea |
Being is one, ungenerated, and imperishable
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denial of void and non-being → distinction between the way of truth and the way of opinion → rejection of sensory experience as a guide to truth → |
| opposedView |
Heraclitean doctrine of flux
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belief in plurality of beings → |
| philosophicalConcept |
impossibility of what-is-not
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necessity of what-is → the One (single unchanging reality) → |
| philosophicalSchool |
Eleatic school
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| philosophicalStance |
monism
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rationalism → |
| regionOfActivity |
Magna Graecia
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| survivingWorkForm |
fragments
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| teacherOf |
Zeno of Elea
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| textForm |
didactic hexameter poem
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| timePeriod |
5th century BCE
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| work |
"On Nature"
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Referenced by (19)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Anaxagoras
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Democritus → Empedocles → Euclid of Megara → Megarian school → Plato → Socrates → Zeno of Elea → |
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Classical Greek philosophy
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Eleatic school → |
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Zeno of Elea
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associatedWith |
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Eleatic school
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founder |
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Magna Graecia
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hasNotableResident |
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Middle dialogues of Plato
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hasPart |
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Presocratic philosophers
("Parmenides of Elea")
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Socratic dialogues of Plato
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includesWork |
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Plato
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notableWork |
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Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
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philosophersCovered |
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Timaeus
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relatedWork |