<Ul> <Li> Zeno of Elea, Melissus of Samos, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Emanuele Severino </Li> </Ul> <Li> Zeno of Elea, Melissus of Samos, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Emanuele Severino </Li> <P> Parmenides of Elea (/ pɑːrˈmɛnɪdiːz əv ˈɛliə /; Greek: Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl . late sixth or early fifth century BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia (Greater Greece, included Southern Italy). He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy . The single known work of Parmenides is a poem, On Nature, which has survived only in fragmentary form . In this poem, Parmenides describes two views of reality . In "the way of truth" (a part of the poem), he explains how reality (coined as "what - is") is one, change is impossible, and existence is timeless, uniform, necessary, and unchanging . In "the way of opinion", he explains the world of appearances, in which one's sensory faculties lead to conceptions which are false and deceitful . He has been considered to be the founder of metaphysics or ontology . </P> <P> Parmenides was born in the Greek colony of Elea (now Ascea), which, according to Herodotus, had been founded shortly before 535 BC . He was descended from a wealthy and illustrious family . </P>

Who thought atoms and the void comprised all of reality