Eleatics

The head of the Italian school, known as Eleatics, was Xenophanes (born

Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849

Alternatively, if one interprets Pyrrho along metaphysical lines, one may be inclined to look to Plato and the Eleatics as possible influences.

Picnic 2009

Parmenides had argued that there were strict metaphysical requirements on any object of knowledge; the later Eleatics, Zeno of Elea (born ca. 490) and Melissus of Samos (fl.ca. 440), extended and explored the consequences of his arguments.

Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007

But this ever-growing idea of mind is really irreconcilable with the abstract Pantheism of the Eleatics.

The Sophist 2006

There were the Eleatics in our part of the world, saying that all things are one; whose doctrine begins with Xenophanes, and is even older.

The Sophist 2006

Eleatics, as there have been in later ages born Aristotelians or

Timaeus 2006

God and the world are mere names, like the Being of the Eleatics, unless some human qualities are added on to them.

Timaeus 2006

To the Cynics and Antisthenes is commonly attributed, on the authority of Aristotle, the denial of predication, while the Megarians are said to have been Nominalists, asserting the One Good under many names to be the true Being of Zeno and the Eleatics, and, like

The Sophist 2006

Unlike the Eleatics, who relegated the world to the sphere of not-being, he admits creation to have an existence which is real and even eternal, although dependent on the will of the creator.

Timaeus 2006

Again, the Eleatics may be regarded as developing in one direction into the Megarian school, in the other into the Atomists, but there is no necessary connexion between them.

The Sophist 2006