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Apr 28, 2011 · Parmenides (l.c. 485 BCE) of Elea was a Greek philosopher from the colony of Elea in southern Italy. He is considered among the most important of the Pre-Socratic philosophers who initiated philosophic inquiry in Greece beginning with Thales of Miletus (l. c. 585 BCE) in the 6th century BCE.
Parmenides of Elea was a Presocratic Greek philosopher. As the first philosopher to inquire into the nature of existence itself, he is incontrovertibly credited as the “Father of Metaphysics.” As the first to employ deductive, a priori arguments to justify his claims, he competes with Aristotle for the title “Father of Logic.”
Aug 17, 2007 · Plato’s Parmenides consists in a critical examination of the theory of forms, a set of metaphysical and epistemological doctrines articulated and defended by the character Socrates in the dialogues of Plato’s middle period (principally Phaedo , Republic II–X, Symposium ).
Jan 18, 2012 · Parmenides (l. c. 485 BCE) lived and taught in Elea, a Greek colony in southern Italy and is known as the founder of the Monist School (though it may have been founded by Xenophanes of Colophon, l. c. 570-478 BCE) which claimed all of reality is One. The observable world, Parmenides said, is actually uniform and singular (mono) in being.
Parmenides (Greek: Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato.It is widely considered to be one of the most challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a young Socrates.The occasion of the meeting was the reading by Zeno of his ...
Apr 22, 2020 · Parmenides - Classics - Oxford Bibliographies. John Palmer. LAST REVIEWED: 22 April 2020. LAST MODIFIED: 22 April 2020. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0156. Introduction. Active in the earlier part of the 5th century BCE, Parmenides of Elea is Presocratic philosophy’s most challenging and profound thinker.
Parmenides. By Plato. Commentary: Several comments have been posted about Parmenides . Download: A 98k text-only version is available for download . Parmenides. By Plato. Written 370 B.C.E. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Persons of the Dialogue.
