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Name: Parmenides
Birth Date: 515 B.C.
Place of Birth: Elea, Italy
Nationality: Greek
Gender: Male
Occupations: philosopher

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Biography of Parmenides
424 words, approx. 1 pages
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,...
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Biography of Parmenides
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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...


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Parmenides Summary
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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...
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Parmenides of Elea [addendum] Summary
981 words, approx. 3 pages
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...
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Parmenides Summary
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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...
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Parmenides of Elea Summary
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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...
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Parmenides Information
3,374 words, approx. 11 pages
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...
 


News and Journals
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The Review of Metaphysics
Parmenides. (book reviews)
09/01/1993: 744 words, approx. 3 pages
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...
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The Review of Metaphysics
Plato's Parmenides.(Review)
12/01/1998: 612 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by B. A. G. Fuller
13,371 words, approx. 45 pages
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.
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Critical Essay by Edward Hussey
10,958 words, approx. 37 pages
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.
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Critical Essay by Richard D. McKirahan, Jr.
10,761 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following excerpt, McKirahan clarifies some of the more difficult passages in Parmenides 's work and answers objections to the poem.
 


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