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Parmenides
Interesting facts
Parmenides is considered the founder of the Eleatic School of Philosophy, which emphasized the idea of a singular, unchanging reality (Monism).
His influence on later philosophers, particularly Plato and Zeno, was profound in shaping metaphysical thought.
Although Parmenides’s philosophy is startling in its rejection of what seems to be common sense, he was revered in Elea, and is reported to have written a very wise set of laws.
Biography
Parmenides was likely born around 515 BCE in Elea, a Greek colony in Italy.
Very little is known about his life, and most of his ideas are preserved through the fragments of his works.
His most famous work is On Nature. This poem presents his philosophical views in the form of a conversation between a young man and a goddess, where the latter imparts the truth about the nature of reality.
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