Parmenides of Elea and Plato
Elea in Campania was the site of a famous school of thought from the sixth century BC with philosophers like Xenophanes, Parmenides and Zeno, which have profoundly influenced the next logical reasoning, and Plato in the complex dialogue "Parmenides" do to demonstrate the theory of the ideas with the dialectic technique own to the greek-Italic thinker; regarded in practice the first "noble and majestic" Western metaphysical (as opposed Aristotle, is the disciple Zeno the first to effectively to use the dialectic technique). Parmenides in the fifth century BC about developing a correspondence between thought and being until get to demonstrate the unity of Being, the metaphysics immobility of the Absolute (a precursor of the theory of "nothing is created nothing is destroyed") as opposed to the eternal flux of Heraclitus and introducing the principle of non-contradiction, trying to combat false beliefs enemy of the reason.
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Date: 19/05/2010
article n°: 1274
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