Eleatic

[el-ee-at-ik]

adjective

1. of or relating to Elea.

2. noting or pertaining to a school of philosophy, founded by Parmenides, that investigated the phenomenal world, especially with reference to the phenomena of change.

noun

1. a philosopher of the Eleatic school.

Eleatic

/ ˌɛlɪˈætɪk, ˌɛlɪˈætɪˌsɪzəm /

adjective

1. denoting or relating to a school of philosophy founded in Elea in Greece in the 6th century _bc by Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno. It held that one pure immutable Being is the only object of knowledge and that information obtained by the senses is illusory

noun

1. a follower of this school

Other Word Forms

• Eleaticism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Eleatic¹

1685–95; < Latin Eleāticus < Greek Eleātikós. See Elea, -tic

Example Sentences

He, with Parmenides and Zeno, are the chief representatives of the Eleatic school, so named from the city in southwestern Italy where a Greek colony had settled.

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This was the belief of the Brahmins, and was no doubt transmitted to the Academic and Eleatic schools of Greece by Pythagoras.

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This “All,” which Krishna calls himself, is not, any more than the Eleatic One, and the Spinozan Substance, the Every-thing.

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Eleatic, el-e-at′ik, adj. noting a school of philosophers, specially connected with Elea, a Greek city of Lower Italy, and including Zenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno.—n. one belonging to this school.

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His only school had been the Eleatic School, the contention of which was that the true explanation of things lies in the conception of a universal unity of being, or the All-ness of One.

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