Eleatics
Being is one and unchanging; motion and plurality are illusions of the senses
Key ideas
- Only being is; non-being is not
- Change and coming-to-be are unthinkable
- Reason outranks the evidence of the senses
- Zeno's paradoxes: Achilles and the Tortoise, the Arrow
Key thinkers
- Parmenides (founder) — Greek philosopher, founder of the Eleatic school, 515 BC–470 BC
- Zeno of Elea — Greek philosopher of the Eleatic school, 490 BC–430 BC
What grew out of it
- Ancient atomism c. 440 BC – 370 BC · Europe
Meanwhile elsewhere
- Milesian school Middle East
- Confucianism Asia
- Buddhist philosophy Asia
- Mohism Asia
- Taoism Asia
- Legalism Asia