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  1. Apr 1, 2024 · Parmenides (born c. 515 bce) was a Greek philosopher of Elea in southern Italy who founded Eleaticism, one of the leading pre-Socratic schools of Greek thought. His general teaching has been diligently reconstructed from the few surviving fragments of his principal work, a lengthy three-part verse composition titled On Nature .

  2. 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.

  3. 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 ).

  4. Feb 8, 2011 · Parmenides is one of the most significant of the pre-Socratic philosophers. [ 11] His only known work, conventionally titled On Nature, is a poem, which has only survived in fragmentary form. Approximately 160 lines of the poem remain today; reportedly the original text had 3,000 lines.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Parmenides of Elea is one of the most profound and challenging of the early Greek philosophers. He wrote a didactic poem treating metaphysical and cosmological themes presented in the form of a mystical revelation.

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