Parmenides biography summary

Parmenides ideas

Parmenides of Elea, active in the earlier part of the 5th c.
parmenides biography summary

Parmenides born and died

Parmenides of Elea was a Presocratic Greek philosopher.


Parmenides' being and not-being

Parmenides was a fifth-century BCE Greek philosopher, belonging to the city of Elea.


Parmenides contribution to philosophy
The Greek philosopher Parmenides (active 475 B.C.) asserted that true being and knowledge, discovered by the intellect, must be distinguished from appearance and opinion, .