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Parmenides and Zeno: Eleatic Philosophy

Parmenides was the founder of the Eleatic School of philosophy who asserted that change is impossible and everything that exists is permanent and unchanging. He influenced later philosophers like Plato. Zeno of Elea, who was from the same school, developed paradoxes to argue that motion and plurality are illusions, though Aristotle disagreed with his conclusions. The Eleatics believed reason was a better path to truth than sense experience. While their conclusions were rejected, they improved philosophical argumentation.

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Parmenides and Zeno: Eleatic Philosophy

Parmenides was the founder of the Eleatic School of philosophy who asserted that change is impossible and everything that exists is permanent and unchanging. He influenced later philosophers like Plato. Zeno of Elea, who was from the same school, developed paradoxes to argue that motion and plurality are illusions, though Aristotle disagreed with his conclusions. The Eleatics believed reason was a better path to truth than sense experience. While their conclusions were rejected, they improved philosophical argumentation.

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Parminides

Basic info

 founder and chief representative of the Eleatic School of ancient Greek


philosophy. <- Basic info
 father of Metaphysics
 influenced Plato
Works
 Parminides' only known work, a poem written in hexameter verse was “On Nature”
 describing the two views of reality, "The Way of Truth" and "The Way of Appearance/Opinion"
Ideas
 Parmenides asserted that change is impossible
 Everything that exists is permanent, ungenerated, indestructible and unchanging.
Contradicted
 Which led Leucippus and Democritus to propose their theory of Atomism

Zeno of Elea
Basic info
 inventor of the dialectic
 Bertrand Russell has credited him with having laid the foundations of modern Logic.
 refuting the views of his opponents.
Ideas
 he taught that the world of sense, with its apparent motion and plurality is merely an illusion
 Although Parmenides himself may actually have been the first to use this style of argument,
Zeno became the most famous
Contradicted
 Aristotle disagreed with Zeno's ideas, calling them fallacies
Major Works
 3 of the most famous paradoxes of Zeno was The Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise, The
Arrow Paradox, The Dichotomy Paradox

The Eleatics rejected the epistemological validity of sense experience, preferring reason and
logical standards of clarity and necessity to be the criteria of truth. Although the conclusions of
the Eleatics were largely rejected by the later Pre-Socratic and Socratic philosophers, their
arguments were taken seriously, and they are generally credited with improving the standards
of discourse and argument in their time
. Zeno of Elea

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