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	Eleatics - InformationBlast
		The main doctrines of the Eleatics were evolved in opposition to the theories of the early physicalist philosophers, who explained all existence in terms of primary matter, and to the theory of Heraclitus, which declared that all existence may be summed up as perpetual change.
		According to their doctrine, the senses cannot cognize this unity, because their reports are inconsistent; it is by thought alone that we can pass beyond the false appearances of sense and arrive at the knowledge of being, at the fundamental truth that the All is One.
		Though the conclusions of the Eleatics were rejected by the later Presocratics and Aristotle, their arguments were taken seriously, and they are generally credited with improving the standards of discourse and argument in their time.
	www.informationblast.com /Eleatics.html (559 words)

	Eleatics Information
		The Eleatics were a school of pre-Socratic philosophers at Elea, a Greek colony in Lucania, Italy.
		Xenophanes had made the first attack on the mythology of early Greece in the middle of the 6th century, including an attack against the whole anthropomorphic system enshrined in the poems of Homer and Hesiod.
		The Eleatics rejected the epistemological validity of sense experience, and instead took mathematical standards of clarity and necessity to be the criteria of truth.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Eleatics (557 words)

	Notes on the Eleatics (Parmenides, Zeno,Melissus)
		The works of the three "Eleatic" philosophers have much in common, but that is not to say that all three were trying to do the exact same thing, or that all three can be found to be in agreement on all points.
		We have seen that it is often said that all three "Eleatics" claimed that what is (to eon in Parmenides or to on in Zeno and Melissus: a difference of dialect) is one; or that all three wrote in support of the claim that what is is one.
		But the third "Eleatic", Melissus, did write in support of the claim that what is is one.
	www.gmu.edu /courses/phil/ancient/pzm3.htm (5326 words)

	JOHN BURNET'S EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY, CHAPTER VIII., THE YOUNGER ELEATICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the other hand, he was certainly convinced by the Eleatic dialectic, and renounced the Ionic doctrine in so far as it was inconsistent with that.
		Eleaticism was always critical, and we are not without indications of the attitude taken up by Melissos towards contemporary systems.
		To maintain it in the first sense, the Eleatics were obliged to disprove it in the second; and so it sometimes seemed that they were speaking of their own "One" when they really meant the other.
	www.classicpersuasion.org /pw/burnet/egp.htm?chapter=8 (6835 words)

	SparkNotes: Presocratics: The Eleatics: Zeno of Elea and Melissus of Samos
		The movement he founded is called the school of Elea, and its members are referred to as the Eleatics.
		The main Eleatic positions were inherited from Parmenides: (1) there is no genesis or corruption; (2) there is no plurality out of unity; (3) there is no change; (4) it is impossible to speak or think of non-being.
		Melissus of Samos was the last of the famous Eleatics, writing around 440 B.C. He argued for Parmenides' claims in his own original way, drawing on the distinction between "is" and "seems" and the metaphysical consequences of the former.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/presocratics/section7.rhtml (443 words)

	Philosophical Blindness: Between Arguments and Insights - Science - RedOrbit
		The case of the Eleatic blind arguments makes a special sort of blindness, which is indeed a matter of detachment from a sober view of reality as well as from one's comprehensive and nonreductive thinking.
		In the case of the Eleatic philosophy, by "detachment or dissociation from one's comprehensive and nonreductive view," I mean a view that reduces all facts and phenomena to what is entirely compatible with the strict, unqualified logical laws, namely, the laws of identity, contradiction, and the excluded middle.
		In the Eleatic view, only one totally comprehensive, homogeneous reality, exempt from any change or differentiation-only the Parmenidean One-can strictly meet the laws of l\ogic with no qualifications at all.8 Such is the Eleatic reduction which, since Hegel's criticism of it in his Science of Logic, is quite familiar to philosophers.
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	ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: The Period of Naturalism
		The Eleatic School resumed discussion of the problem of being and becoming and attacked the opposition between sense knowledge and intellectual knowledge.
		The representatives of the Eleatic School are Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, and Melissus.
		The Eleatic School had the merit of calling the attention of philosophers to the concept of being and becoming, of motion, of time, of space, and of continuity.
	radicalacademy.com /adiphilnaturalism2.htm (2515 words)

	Hegel's History of Philosophy
		In it we see thought becoming free for itself; and in that which the Eleatics express as absolute essence, we see Thought grasp itself in purity, and the movement of Thought in Notions In the physical philosophy we saw movement represented as an objective movement, as an origination and passing away.
		The Eleatics in their reflections were distinguished from this our ordinary reflecting thought, in that they went speculatively to work (the speculative element being that change does not exist at all) and that they thus showed that, as Being was presupposed, change in itself is contradictory and inconceivable.
		What specially characterizes Zeno is the dialectic which, properly speaking, begins with him; he is the master of the Eleatic school in whom its pure thought arrives at the movement of the Notion in itself and becomes the pure soul of science.
	www.marxists.org /reference/archive/hegel/works/hp/hpeleatics.htm (10559 words)

	The Greek Atom and Quantum Mechanics
		However the Eleatics did deny the senses when there was a conflict.
		Parmenides born in Elea in southern Italy and founded the Eleatics school of thought in the fifth century B.C..
		It was left to Zeno to defend the Eleatics, the one and wholeness of the world.
	www.vivboard.net /doc/n0029.htm (2893 words)

	• Science • Philosophy - The Eleatics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Eleatics attempted to disprove the idea that "everything flows" by asserting the direct opposite: that nothing changes, that movement is an illusion.
		This is a good example of the dialectical character of the evolution of human thought in general, and the history of philosophy in particular.
		Whereas the Pythagoreans abstracted from matter all determinate qualities except number, the Eleatics went one step further, taking the process to an extreme, arriving at a totally abstract conception of being, stripped of all concrete manifestations, except bare existence.
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	Classics in the History of Psychology -- Baldwin (1913) Volume I, Chapter 3
		The Theory of the "One " of the Eleatics.
		But the problem of perception or knowledge is one of the inner or subjective life; and in bringing it forward the Eleatic philosophers took a step toward the definition of the subjective point of view as such, represented later on by Socrates.
		In this speculative "identity philosophy," we are reminded of the pantheism of Spinoza, which followed upon the dualism of Descartes, much as the pantheism of the Eleatics follows upon the similar but less well-defined dualism of the Pythagoreans.
	psychclassics.yorku.ca /Baldwin/History/chap1-3.htm (5609 words)

	Hegel Eleatic School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These Eleatic propositions still have interest for Philosophy, and are moments which must necessarily there appear.
		Xenophanes may be - regarded as the founder of it; Parmenides is supposed to have been his pupil, and Melissus, and especially Zeno, are called the pupils of Parmenides.
		In fact, they are to be taken together as forming the Eleatic school; later on it lost the name, being then called Sophistic, and its locality was transferred to Greece proper.
	www.wright.edu /cola/Dept/PHL/Class/PS/HES.html (456 words)

	Khan Amore's Highlights of Ancient Greek Philosophy: Melissus
		Eleatic school, although he was a native not of Elea, but of Samos, the island from which
		The chief obstacle to the spread of the Eleatic doctrines was the testimony of the senses.
		The Eleatics considered only that to be real which seemed to make sense in a simplistic theoretical sort of way — anything puzzling, troubling, or inconsistent with their template for reality they dismissed as illusory.
	www.hypatia-lovers.com /AncientGreeks/Section11.html (1271 words)

	PHIL 421 Spring 2004 syllabus
		The work of the Eleatic thinkers Parmenides and Zeno is addressed directly in the Sophist and indirectly in the other two dialogues.
		For example, the sophists, the Eleatics, and Socrates all used deductive arguments; and all argued that certain fundamental common beliefs led to contradictions or paradoxes.
		Therefore it is strongly recommended that you read the whole of each dialogue at least once by the second week in which it is under discussion (for example, it is a good idea to read the whole Gorgias at least once by February 9.) Then go over the specific part assigned for the week.
	www.gmu.edu /courses/phil/ancient/p421s04s.htm (2424 words)

	Parmenides (c.515 - c.450 BCE) \| Rational Vedanta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Parmenides of Elea, an ancient Greek philosopher was a student of Ameinias and the founder of the School of Elea, whose students came to be known as Eleatics, which included Zeno of Elea and Melissus of Samos.
		Parmenides is one of the most significant of the pre-Socratic philosophers; however, of his known work only the conventionally titled 'On Nature' (written between 480 and 470 BCE) has survived in a meagre form.
		In the Parmenides the Eleatic philosopher, which may well be Parmenides himself, and Socrates argue about dialectic.
	www.rationalvedanta.net /bios/rationalists/parmenides (1038 words)

	SparkNotes: Presocratics: Important Terms
		Eleatics - The Eleatic philosophers were the followers of Parmenides of Elea.
		The school of Elea was the first western school of thought to consider pure, abstract reason (as opposed to observation)as the sole criterion of truth.
		They were all reacting against the Eleatics, and so they claimed that each of their physis was, in fact, the Parmenidean Real.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/presocratics/terms.html (884 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Megarians
		But, as the Eleatics taught, the highest object of knowledge is the highest reality, being.
		This art (the eristic method, or method of strife, as it was called in contradistinction to the heuristic method, or method of finding, advocated by Socrates), was introduced into philosophy by the Eleatic, Zeno, surnamed the Dialectician.
		It was adopted by the Megarian School, and carried by the followers of Euclid to a point where it ceased to serve any useful or even serious purpose.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10146b.htm (375 words)

	Rising Above the Past - Every Moment
		The Eleatic ghost is not an altogether unpleasant specter.
		It has been touched by the Eleatic ghost; in fact, it may be one of its relatives.
		No doubt, it is what led to the pantheism that I admire as an attempted explanation of unity, but which I abhor as a roadblock on the way to adequate understanding of the genuine nature of unity.
	websyte.com /Alan/rising.htm (4701 words)

	The Philosophy Resource Center: Gorgias the Sophist on Not Being
		Following the rhetorical approach, researchers in speech communication and rhetoric attempt to attribute to Gorgias an epistemology and a genuine philosophy of rhetoric (Gronbeck, 1972: 36; Engnell, 1973; Enos, 1976; Cascardi, 1983; Walters, 1994).
		According to the second approach, Gorgias is just a nihilist (or a negative dogmatic or a forerunner of scepticism) attacking the doctrines of the Eleatics and the Presocratics (ontological approach).
		As far as we can tell from Gorgias' treatise On What is Not, the Gorgianic arguments and counter arguments refer to the Eleatics who had engaged in a controversy with the Atomists about being and non-being (or kenon).
	radicalacademy.com /studentrefphil6k.htm (2687 words)

	Eleaticism :: Ancient : Gourt
		Eleaticism - Article reviewing this school's core ideas and its relation to its philosophical contemporaries and successors.
		Notes on the Eleatics - Brief comparison and contrast of this school's three chief representatives: Parmenides, Zeno and Melissus.
		The Italian Philosophers - An analysis of the three chief thinkers of the Eleatic school.
	society.gourt.com /Philosophy/History-of-Philosophy/Ancient/Eleaticism.html (230 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 13 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sturz (Empedocles Agi*ige,ntwm, Lipsiae, 1805), and lately Simon Karsten has greatly distinguished himself for what he has done for the criticism and explanation of the text, as well as for the light he has thrown on separate doctrines.
		Acquainted as Empedocles was with the theories of the Eleatics and the Pythagoreans, he did not adopt the fundamental principles either of the one or the other schools, although he agreed with the latter in his belief in the migration of souls (Fragm.
		In order, nevertheless, to establish the reality of changes, and consequently the world and its phaenomena, against the deductions of the Eleatics, they were obliged
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1121.html (639 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cynic School of Philosophy
		The Cynic School, founded at Athens about 400 B.C., continued in existence until about 200 B.C. It sprang from the ethical doctrine of Socrates regarding the necessity of moderation and self-denial.
		With this ethical element it combined the dialectical and rhetorical methods of the Eleatics and the Sophists.
		The Cynic contempt for the refinements and conventions of polite society is generally given as the reason for the name dogs (kúnes) by which the first representatives of the school were known.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04582a.htm (435 words)

	Melissus of Samos Summary
		If Melissus has any claim to special historical importance that is not shared by the other Eleatics, it is perhaps that by applying Eleatic criteria to the plural beings posited by his opponents, he produced a formula (in Fr.
		Selected texts with English translation and commentary are in G. Kirk and J. Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1957); the commentary should be treated with caution, especially on the subject of infinity and Melissus's relation with the Pythagoreans.
		Melissus of Samos (born probably no later than 470 BC) was a Samian statesman and naval commander who also contributed to philosophy, and bore influence upon the atomism of Leucippus and Democritus.
	www.bookrags.com /Melissus_of_Samos (1680 words)

	The Presocratics - The Eleatics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Parmenides of Elea, a revolutionary and enigmatic Greek philosophical poet, was the earliest defender of Eleatic metaphysics.
		He wrote in order to defend the Eleatic metaphysics of his fellow citizen and friend Parmenides, according to whom reality is single, changeless and homogeneous.
		Although it is uncertain how important Melissus was to his own contemporaries, his prosaic but clear presentation of Eleatic concepts was more widely adopted by later writers than the enigmatic pronouncements of Parmenides.
	pressurecooker.phil.cmu.edu /80-250/guides/Eleatics.html (1498 words)

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