Parmenides Philosopher (510-450 BC)
Parmenides (510-450 BC) Parmenides of Elea was born around 515 BC in Elea, Italy. He died around the year 450 BC, but the place of death is unknown. He was a Greek philosopher. According to Plato, at the age of 65 years, along with Parmenides Zeno visiting Athens for dialogue with Socrates Socrates which at that time was still young. The works of Parmenides is poetry. Not much is known about the life of Parmenides. He is often considered the founder of philosophy Eleatik ,, and it is estimated that Zeno of Elea and Melissus of Samos is among his students, and he himself was a pupil of Xenophanes. Parmenides though younger, was a contemporary of Heraclitus whose philosophy is contrary to the philosophy of Parmenides. In the opinion of Parmenides, which is referred to as reality is not motion and change. Th...