Eleatic school

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ancient Greek philosophical school philosophical movement

The Eleatic school was an ancient Greek philosophical movement, centered in Elea, that emphasized the unchanging, unified nature of reality and is best known through thinkers like Parmenides and Zeno.

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Label Occurrences
Eleatic school canonical 20
Eleatic school of philosophy 4
Eleatic philosophy 3

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek philosophical school ⓘ
philosophical movement ⓘ
associatedWith Paradoxes of motion ⓘ
surface form: Zeno's paradoxes

poem On Nature ⓘ
coreDoctrine being is and non-being is not ⓘ
change is illusory ⓘ
reality is one ⓘ
reality is unchanging ⓘ
sensory experience is deceptive ⓘ
truth is accessible only to reason ⓘ
country Greek Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Ancient Greece
emphasizes deductive reasoning ⓘ
immutability of reality ⓘ
logical argumentation ⓘ
unity of being ⓘ
field epistemology ⓘ
metaphysics ⓘ
ontology ⓘ
founder Parmenides ⓘ
hasKeyFigure Melissus of Samos ⓘ
Parmenides ⓘ
Xenophanes of Colophon ⓘ
Zeno of Elea ⓘ
historicalContext Presocratic period of Greek philosophy ⓘ
influenced Aristotle ⓘ
Megarian school ⓘ
Neoplatonism ⓘ
Plato ⓘ
Stoicism ⓘ
Western metaphysics ⓘ
philosophy of being ⓘ
influencedBy Ionian school ⓘ
surface form: Milesian school

Pythagoreanism ⓘ
knownFor critique of motion ⓘ
critique of plurality ⓘ
logical paradoxes ⓘ
metaphysical monism ⓘ
language Ancient Greek ⓘ
legacy development of logical reasoning in philosophy ⓘ
locatedIn Elea ⓘ
method reductio ad absurdum argumentation ⓘ
namedAfter Elea ⓘ
opposedTo Heraclitean doctrine of flux ⓘ
atomism ⓘ
pluralism ⓘ
philosophicalTradition Presocratic philosophers ⓘ
surface form: Presocratic philosophy
region Magna Graecia ⓘ
teaches distinction between way of truth and way of opinion ⓘ
timePeriod 5th century BCE ⓘ
6th century BCE ⓘ

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Euclid of Megara → influencedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ
Euclid of Megara → associatedWith → Eleatic school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eleatic philosophy
Euclid of Megara → tradition → Eleatic school ⓘ
Presocratic philosophers → hasSubgroup → Eleatic school ⓘ
Parmenides → philosophicalSchool → Eleatic school ⓘ
Academy of Athens → influencedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ
subject surface form: Academy of Athens (ancient)
Zeno of Elea → movement → Eleatic school ⓘ
Zeno of Elea → philosophicalSchool → Eleatic school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eleatic philosophy
Zeno of Elea → category → Eleatic school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ancient Eleatics
Megarian school → influencedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ
Ionian school → followedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ
poem "On Nature" → philosophicalSchool → Eleatic school ⓘ
subject surface form: On Nature
Plato's dialogue "Parmenides" → philosophicalSchoolDiscussed → Eleatic school ⓘ
subject surface form: Parmenides (dialogue)
Leucippus → influencedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eleatic philosophy
Xenophanes of Colophon → influenced → Eleatic school ⓘ
Melissus of Samos → philosophicalSchool → Eleatic school ⓘ
Elea → knownFor → Eleatic school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eleatic school of philosophy
Elea → associatedWith → Eleatic school ⓘ
Elea → hasSchool → Eleatic school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eleatic school of philosophy
Eleatic Stranger → philosophicalTradition → Eleatic school ⓘ
Velia → knownFor → Eleatic school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eleatic school of philosophy
Velia → associatedWithSchool → Eleatic school ⓘ
Paradoxes of motion → associatedWith → Eleatic school ⓘ
Paradoxes of plurality → associatedWith → Eleatic school ⓘ
Paradoxes of plurality → supportsDoctrine → Eleatic school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eleatic monism
Achilles and the tortoise → hasHistoricalContext → Eleatic school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eleatic school of philosophy
Dichotomy paradox → hasPhilosophicalContext → Eleatic school ⓘ
Arrow paradox → hasPhilosophicalTradition → Eleatic school ⓘ
Pluralist school → influencedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ
Pluralist school → contrastsWith → Eleatic school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eleatic monism