Eleatic school

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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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Eleatic school canonical 21
Eleatic philosophy 6
Eleatic school of philosophy 5

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

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 Ancient Greece ⓘ
linked to: Greek Antiquity
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 Milesian school ⓘ
linked to: Ionian 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 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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Referenced by (37)

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Euclid of Megara → influencedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ
Euclid of Megara → associatedWith → Eleatic philosophy ⓘ
linked to: Eleatic school
Euclid of Megara → tradition → Eleatic school ⓘ
Presocratic philosophers → hasSubgroup → Eleatic school ⓘ
Parmenides → philosophicalSchool → Eleatic school ⓘ
Academy of Athens (ancient) → influencedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ
subject linked to: Academy of Athens
Zeno of Elea → movement → Eleatic school ⓘ
Zeno of Elea → philosophicalSchool → Eleatic philosophy ⓘ
linked to: Eleatic school
Zeno of Elea → category → Ancient Eleatics ⓘ
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Megarian school → influencedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ
Ionian school → followedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ
On Nature → philosophicalSchool → Eleatic school ⓘ
subject linked to: poem "On Nature"
Parmenides (dialogue) → philosophicalSchoolDiscussed → Eleatic school ⓘ
subject linked to: Plato's dialogue "Parmenides"
Leucippus → influencedBy → Eleatic philosophy ⓘ
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Xenophanes of Colophon → influenced → Eleatic school ⓘ
Melissus of Samos → philosophicalSchool → Eleatic school ⓘ
Elea → knownFor → Eleatic school of philosophy ⓘ
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Elea → hasSchool → Eleatic school of philosophy ⓘ
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Velia → associatedWithSchool → Eleatic school ⓘ
Paradoxes of motion → associatedWith → Eleatic school ⓘ
Paradoxes of plurality → associatedWith → Eleatic school ⓘ
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Achilles and the tortoise → hasHistoricalContext → Eleatic school of philosophy ⓘ
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Pluralist school → influencedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ
Pluralist school → contrastsWith → Eleatic monism ⓘ
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the One and the many → isAddressedBy → Eleatic monism ⓘ
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On Nature or On What Is → mainTopic → Eleatic philosophy ⓘ
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On Nature or On What Is → relatedConcept → Eleatic monism ⓘ
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archaeological park of Velia → associatedWith → Eleatic school of philosophy ⓘ
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Plato's circle → influencedBy → Eleatic philosophy ⓘ
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