Eleaticism
Eleaticism was a way of thinking that started in the 5th century BC in ancient Greece. It was named after a place called Elea, where some of the thinkers lived. Elea was a town in southern Italy, near the sea. The first and most famous Eleatic thinker was Parmenides. He wrote a poem about his ideas. He had two students, Zeno and Melissus, who also wrote about Eleaticism. They tried to support Parmenides’ ideas with different arguments. Eleaticism was different from other ways of thinking at that time. It challenged the ideas of people like Xenophanes, Heraclitus, and Pythagoras. Eleaticism also influenced later thinkers like Plato and Aristotle.