The Greek philosopher Parmenides (active 475 BC) asserted that true being and knowledge, discovered by the intellect, must be distinguished from appearance and opinion, based on the senses. He held that there is an eternal One, which is timeless,...

Parmenides is traditionally called "The Father of Metaphysics"; he was the first Western philosopher to push beyond an inquiry into the nature of things to a consideration of philosophical inquiry as such and thus to an analysis of the deep logic of...

PARMENIDES. A Greek philosopher who lived between the second half of the sixth century BCE and the first half of the fifth century BCE, Parmenides was born in and lived in Elea, an Ionic colony on the coast of Campania, in an area then inhabited by the...

Parmenides of Elea [addendum] David Furley's original entry remains an exemplary introduction to Parmenides' thought. Since its publication, philosophers have focused on the character of the routes of inquiry that the goddess lays out in...

b. 515? B.C. Greek Philosopher In a fragmentary poetic text, Parmenides outlined what he described as "The Way of Truth"—that is, the way of intellect, which penetrates the unchanging nature of true being—and "The Way...

c. 515-480 B.C. Most important of ancient Greek philosophers prior to Socrates. He was the first to address the nature of being and the problem of change. He argued that all existing things do not change inasmuch as all things that exist always have...

For the Platonic dialogue see Parmenides (dialogue). Parmenides of Elea (Greek: Παρμενίδης ο Ἐλεάτης, early 5th century BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Hellenic city on the southern coast of Italy. Parmenides was...

Heidegger, Martin. Parmenides. Translated by A. Schuwer and R. Rojcewicz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. xv + 170 pp. $29.95--This work is a translation of volume 54 of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe. The original German volume is the text of a lecture course given...

ALLEN, R. E., trans. Plato's Parmenides. Dialogues of Plato, vol. 4. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xiv + 351 pp. Cloth, $45.00--The "revised edition" of the book Allen first published with the University of Minnesota Press in 1983 makes a number of...

In the following excerpt, Fuller considers the difficulties and ramifications of Parmenides's logical assertions, explaining how Parmenides's work was rein-forced by Zeno through his paradoxical motion scenarios and modified by the skeptic Me lis sus.

In the following excerpt, Hussey considers the proofs in Parmenides's poem, attempts to explain what "that which is" means, and summarizes the arguments of Parmenides's disciple Zeno.

In the following excerpt, McKirahan clarifies some of the more difficult passages in Parmenides 's work and answers objections to the poem.