. Parmenides and his disciple Zeno (not Zeno the STOIC) started a philosophy of extreme monism in Elea in south Italy in the early fifth century BC. As usually interpreted, Parmenides held that reality must consist of a single, undifferentiated and...

The Eleatics were a school of pre-Socratic philosophers at Elea, a Greek colony in Campania, Italy. The group was founded in the early fifth century BCE by Parmenides. Other members of the school included Zeno of Elea and Melissus of Samos. Xenophanes...