Eleaticism School of pre-Socratic philosophy that flourished in the 5th century &BC;. It took its name from the Greek colony of Elea (Velia) in southern Italy. It is distinguished by its radical monism—i.e., its doctrine of the One, according to which all tha... more
Eleatics . 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 uncha... more
