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 Xenophanes [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Xenophanes early left his own country and took refuge in Sicily, where he supported himself by reciting, at the court of Hiero, elegiac and iambic verses, which he had written in criticism of the Theogony of Hesiod and Homer.
Xenophanes was an elegiac and satirical poet who approached the question of science from the standpoint of the reformer rather than of the scientific investigator.
Xenophanes found the weapons he required for his attack on polytheism in the science of the time.
www.utm.edu /research/iep/x/x-phanes.htm   (765 words)

  
 XENOPHANES - Online Information article about XENOPHANES
God." Whether Xenophanes was a monotheist, whose assertion of the unity of God suggested to Parmenides the doctrine of the unity of Being, or a pantheist, whose assertion of the unity of God was also a See also:
Meta-physics, A5, speaks of Xenophanes as the first of the Eleatic unitarians, adding that his monotheism was reached through the contemplation of the obpav6s.
Thus, whereas in his writings, so far as they are known to us, Xenophanes appears as a theologian protesting against an anthropomorphic polytheism, the ancients seem to have regarded him as a philosopher asserting the unity of Being.
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 AllRefer.com - Xenophanes (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Although thought by some to be the founder of the Eleatic school, his thought is only superficially similar to that of Parmenides.
Xenophanes opposed the anthropomorphic representation of the gods common to the Greeks since Homer and Hesiod.
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