ELEATIC SCHOOL

ēlēătˈĭk, Greek pre-Socratic philosophical school at Elea, a Greek colony in Lucania, Italy. The group was founded in the early 5th cent. b.c. by Parmenides, its greatest thinker. He denied the reality of change on the ground that things either exist or do not. Hence, there are no in-between stages, as the concept of change, or "becoming," ordinarily implies. His disciples were Zeno of Elea, who used a series of paradoxes to show the indefensibility of common-sense notions of reality, and Melissus of Samos, who systematized Eleatic views. The ultimate reality for the Eleatics was an undifferentiated "being," in contrast to the illusory testimony of the senses.

See J. E. Raven, Pythagoreans and Eleatics (1966, repr. 1981).

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The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought
Book by Patricia Curd; Parmenides, 2004
Subjects: Eleatics, Parmenides--Influence, Pre-Socratic Philosophers
...And because he thought that the Eleatic view entailed a commitment to numerical...the chief representative of the Eleatic school; and Parmenides obscure verses...of his successors clear prose ( Eleatic One, p. ?1n.77). While it...
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By Being, It Is: The Thesis of Parmenides
Book by Néstor-Luis Cordero; Parmenides, 2004
Subjects: Eleatics, Ontology, Parmenides--Nature--Criticism And Interpretation
...fr. 7 7). Probably, Platos676 invention of the Eleatic school contaminated Parmenides with these ideas of his fellow...Greci, 1.3, 217). 676 On Platos invention of the Eleatic school, cf. Cordero, N. L., Simplicius et I 6cole eleate...
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The School of Plato: Its Origin, Development, and Revival under the Roman Empire
Book by F. W. Bussell; Methuen & Co., 1896
Subjects: Philosophy, Ancient, Platonists
...the world of impersonal thought. There is no sign among these earlier Eleatic or Ionian speculators that prejudice prevailed against the existing...examination of material objects, and not of thought, arose in the opposite school a certain
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Twentieth Century Philosophy: Living Schools of Thought
Book by Dagobert D. Runes; Philosophical Library, 1947
Subjects: Philosophy, Modern
...a priori knowledge of a high degree of certainty, and most philosophy aspires to a priori knowledge. Ever since Zeno the Eleatic, philosophers of an idealistic caste have sought to throw discredit on mathematics by manufacturing contradictions which were...
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Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History
Book by Charles H. Kahn; Hackett, 2001
Subjects: Pythagoras And Pythagorean School
...rather awkward attempts to provide deduc- tive arguments in the Eleatic manner ( Either A, B, or C; but not A and not B; therefore...that of Anaxagoras or Diogenes, but in the heavy shadow of Eleatic logic and ontology. And certain features of the astronomy...
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Plato's 'Parmenides': A Dramatic Reading
Journal article by Catherine H. Zuckert; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: Parmenides (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Philosophy, Ancient--History, Plato--Philosophy, Socrates--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Socrates once had with the Eleatic philosopher. Upon arrival...conversing with a member of the Eleatic school, Socrates remembers the nobility...central difficulty for both the Eleatics and Socrates, namely, how...compatriots, whereas the Eleatic visitors did not. The Athenians...
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Who's a Philosopher? Who's a Sophist? the Stranger V. Socrates
Journal article by Catherine H. Zuckert; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 54, 2000
Subjects: Philosophers, Ancient--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Plato--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Socrates--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sophists (Greek philosophy)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...beginning. In completely ignoring poetry the Eleatic Stranger goes even further than his teacher...Socrates critique of Zeno from his fellow Eleatics. Knowing that Socrates had refuted Zeno...Kenneth Dorter, Form and Good in Platos Eleatic Dialogues (Berkeley: University of California...
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Infinity on the Threshold of Christianity: The Emergence of a Positive Concept out of Negativity
Journal article by Rein Undusk; Trames, Vol. 13, 2009
Subjects: Christian theology--Analysis, Neoplatonism--Analysis, Ontology--Analysis
...who became the founder of one more philosophic school in southern Italy--the Eleatic School. The thrust of Parmenides achievement was the...one concerning Melissus. Included among the school of Eleatics, Melissus proposed in some vital...
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Why Mathematical Solutions of Zeno's Paradoxes Miss the Point: Zeno's One and Many Relation and Parmenides' Prohibition
Journal article by Alba Papa-Grimaldi; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 50, 1996
Subjects: Mathematics--Philosophy, Paradoxes--Philosophy, Parmenides--Philosophy, Zeno--Philosophy
...the ancient dispute between the Eleatic school and the Pluralists. The first...and just does not acknowledge the Eleatic problematization of movement...proclamation to the celebrated Eleatic doctrine, Absolute Ens as opposed...
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"In Se Da Simulacro a Fiamma Vera / Errando:" Ungaretti's Poetry from Bergson to Plato
Journal article by Ernesto Livorni; The Romanic Review, Vol. 97, 2006
Subjects: Italian poetry, Italian poets--Works, Metaphysical poetry, Ungaretti, Giuseppe--Works
...moments of the duration, and on the other hand on a school of thought that takes shape praising "lunite de la...Ungarettis reflection along the philosophical line of the Eleatic school of Xenophanes and Parmenides about the relationship...
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A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism Builds on Quantum Physics by Putting Life into the Equation
Magazine article by Robert Lanza; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Spring 2007
Subjects: Consciousness
...paradox finally makes sense. The Eleatic school of philosophy, which Zeno brilliantly...passengers. The ads for Rogaine and tech schools. What is not your universe? Everything...professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He has written 20...
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The Forgotten Story of Postmodernity
Magazine article by Rein Staal; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 2008
Subjects: Catholic authors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Catholic authors--Works, Catholic writers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Catholic writers--Works, Guardini, Romano--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Guardini, Romano--Works, Human nature--Analysis, Philosophers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Philosophers--Works, Philosophy of mind--Analysis, Picard, Max--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Picard, Max--Works, Postmodernism--Analysis, Shestov, Lev--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Shestov, Lev--Works
...offered a sustained critique of what he called modernitys "Eleatic reason," after the home of the ancient Greek metaphysicians...some of them knew each other, they did not form an organized school of thought. Although some held professorial appointments...


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encyclopedia articles on: Eleatic School  - 7 results

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Eleatic School
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ELEATIC SCHOOL eleat ik, Greek pre-Socratic...of Samos, who systematized Eleatic views. The ultimate reality for the Eleatics was an undifferentiated "being...E. Raven, Pythagoreans and Eleatics (1966, repr. 1981...
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Megarian School
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MEGARIAN SCHOOL Greek school of philosophy at Megara from late 5th cent. to early 3d cent. b.c. Influenced by the Eleatic school and by Socrates, it was known for its interest in logic and for...
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Xenophanes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...c.480 b.c., pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Colophon. Although thought by some to be the founder of the Eleatic school , his thought is only superficially similar to that of Parmenides . Xenophanes opposed the anthropomorphic representation...
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Parmenides
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PARMENIDES parmen idez, b. c.515 b.c., Greek philosopher of Elea, leading figure of the Eleatic school . Parmenides great contribution to philosophy was the method of reasoned proof for assertions. Parmenides began his argument with...
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Gorgias
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ambassador to Athens, where he settled to teach and practice rhetoric. Gorgias pursued the negative implications of the Eleatic school and asserted: (1) Nothing exists; (2) If anything does exist, it cannot be known; (3) If it can be known...
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