Category:Eleatics

The Eleatics, named after the south-western Italian coastal town of Elea, are among the Pre-Socratics and formed the oldest philosophical school of Greek antiquity. Their main representative was Parmenides, who saw the world as based on an eternally unchanging being, to which the world of the senses was merely a transient phenomenon. Other important representatives of the School of Elea were Zeno of Elea and Melissos of Samos. Xenophanes, who was originally considered the founder of the school and the teacher of Parmenides, is no longer counted among the Eleatics according to current knowledge.