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Born: 5th cent. B.C.
Died: 0470-00-00
Works: 49

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Plato and Parmenides
Le poème
On the Order of Nature
Vom Wesen des Seienden
Fragmente des Parmenides

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Key facts

Philosopher.region: Western philosophy
Philosopher.era: Pre-Socratic philosophy
Philosopher.image: File:Busto di Parmenide (cropped).jpg
Philosopher.caption: Bust of Parmenides discovered at Velia, thought to have been partially modeled on a Metrodorus bust.
Philosopher.name: Parmenides
Philosopher.birth_place: Elea, Magna Graecia
Philosopher.school_tradition: Eleatic school
Philosopher.main_interests: Ontology, poetry, cosmology
Philosopher.notable_ideas: Monism, truth/opinion distinction

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Key dates

Born: 515 BCE
Died: 470 BCE

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Place of birth: Velia
Occupation: legislator
Languages spoken: Ancient Greek
Student of: Xenophanes
Field of work: metaphysics
Movement: Eleatics
Image: Busto di Parmenide (cropped).jpg

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49 sections

Contents

Biography
Chronology
Date of birth
Timeline relative to other Presocratics
Anecdotes
Archaeological discovery
Visit to Athens
Philosophy
Epistemology
Ontology
Cosmology
''On Nature''
Proem
''The Way of Truth''
B2
B3
B6
B7
B8.1-4: Signs about "What is"
B8.5-21 "What is" cannot be begotten or destroyed
B8.22-25: "What is" is whole
B8.26-33 "What is" is motionless
B8.42-49: "What is" is perfect
''The Way of Opinion''
B8.50-52, 34-41: The Fates
B8.53-64: Primordial Elements
B9: Day and Night
B10-15: Cosmology
B16: Sense perception
B17-18: Embryology
B19: Conclusion
Dating, style and transmission
Legacy and study
Ancient philosophy
Pre-Socratic philosophy
Plato
Aristotle
Hellenistic and Roman philosophy
Modern era
Notes
Fragments
Citations
Bibliography
Ancient testimony
Life and doctrines
Fragments
Modern scholarship
Further reading
External links

Parmenides of Elea (; ; fl. late sixth or early fifth century BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia (Southern Italy).

Parmenides was born in the Greek colony of Elea to a wealthy and illustrious family. The exact date of his birth is not known with certainty; on the one hand, according to the doxographer Diogenes Laërtius, Parmenides flourished in the period immediately preceding 500 BC, which would place his year of birth around 540 BC; on the other hand, in the dialogue Parmenides Plato portrays him as visiting Athens at the age of 65, when Socrates was a young man, , which, if true, suggests a potential year of birth of . Parmenides is thought to have been in his prime (or "floruit") around 475 BC.