Parmenides

Parmenides of Elea (5th century BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the Southern coast of Italy. He is reported to have been a student of Xenophanes. He is one of the most significant of the pre-Socratic philosophers. He argued that the every-day perception of reality of the physical world (The Way of Seeming) is mistaken, and that the reality of the world is 'One Being' (the Way of Truth): an unchanging, ungenerated, indestructible whole.

Works

• On Nature (written between 480 and 470 BC)