person
Parmenides
Parmenides of Elea (5th c. BC), founder of Eleatic philosophy, who held that only the One truly is; Seneca lists him among those whose subtlety annihilates the world.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §88.44 Parmenides
Founder of the Eleatic school; held that only the One Being truly exists, the world of appearances being illusion.