Parmenides
historical figure · 11 works · 22 mentions · 37 anchored passages
Parmenides the Eleatic · father Parmenides · my father Parmenides · the Eleatic Parmenides · the great Parmenides
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Lucullus
Pre-Socratic natural philosopher listed among those cited as precedents.
And yet those natural philosophers, very rarely, when they are stuck at some point, cry out, as if driven by inspiration — Empedocles indeed so that he sometimes seems to me to rave — that all things are hidden, that we perceive nothing, discern nothing, can find out at all nothing of what kind a thing is;
Parmenides and Xenophanes, in verses less good — though still in verses — rebuke the arrogance of those, as if in anger, who, when nothing can be known, dare to say that they know.
Parmenides said it was fire which moves, earth which is formed by it.
Stromata
Eleatic philosopher, pupil of Xenophanes.
Parmenides, then, becomes a hearer of Xenophanes, and of him Zeno, then Leucippus, then Democritus.
"Both the unshaken heart of well-persuasive Truth, and the opinions of mortals, in which is no true faith.
" And the great Parmenides, as Plato says in the Sophist, writes of the divine somewhat thus:
Parmenides
Elder Eleatic philosopher, author of a poem declaring that the all is one, who examines young Socrates's theory of Forms and then leads a hypothetical deduction about the nature of the One.
How is that?
Why is that?
Yes, we said that.
Sophist
Eleatic philosopher whose school the Stranger belongs to and whose method of dialectical questioning Socrates recalls witnessing.
he is a stranger from Elea, one of the followers of Parmenides and Zeno, and a real philosopher.
I was present once when Parmenides employed the latter method and carried on a splendid discussion.
If then the whole is, as Parmenides says, On all sides like the mass of a well-rounded sphere, equally weighted in every direction from the middle;
Theaetetus
Philosopher singled out as the sole exception to the flux doctrine shared by nearly all other thinkers.
And on this subject all the philosophers, except Parmenides, may be marshalled in one line—Protagoras and Heracleitus and Empedocles—and the chief poets in the two kinds of poetry, Epicharmus, in comedy, and in tragedy, Homer, who, in the line 0ceanus the origin of the gods, and Tethys their mother, has said that all things are the offspring of flow and motion;
Parmenides seems to me to be, in Homer’s words, one to be venerated and also awful.
especially as the argument we are now proposing is of vast extent, and would not receive its deserts if we treated it as a side issue, and if we treat it as it deserves, it will take so long as to do away with the discussion about knowledge.
On the Nature of the Gods
Greek philosopher who imagined god as a ring of glowing light (stephanê) and personified abstractions such as War and Discord as gods.
As for Parmenides, he devised something quite fanciful:
Protrepticus
Eleatic philosopher who introduced fire and earth as gods.
Parmenides the Eleatic introduced as gods fire and earth;
Symposium
Philosopher-poet cited alongside Hesiod as a source for tales of primordial divine violence.
I say he is youngest of the gods and ever young, while those early dealings with the gods which Hesiod and Parmenides relate, I take to have been the work of Necessity, not of Love, if there is any truth in those stories.
Letters to Lucilius
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, founder of Eleatic monism
if Parmenides, there is nothing except the one;
Parmenides says that of the things which seem, nothing exists except the universe.
De Anima
Greek philosopher listed among those who explained sleep as a cooling.
Empedocles and Parmenides, a cooling;