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Xenophanes

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Xenophanes (zĕnŏf`ənēz), c.570–c.480 B.C., pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Colophon. Although thought by some to be the founder of the Eleatic school Eleatic school (ēlēăt`ĭk), Greek pre-Socratic philosophical school at Elea, a Greek colony in Lucania, Italy.
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, his thought is only superficially similar to that of Parmenides Parmenides (pärmĕn`ĭdēz), b. c.515 B.C., Greek philosopher of Elea, leading figure of the Eleatic school .
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. Xenophanes opposed the anthropomorphic representation of the gods common to the Greeks since Homer and Hesiod. Instead he asserted there is only one god, eternal and immutable but intimately connected with the world. Although interpretations of his thought vary, it was probably a form of pantheism. He was a singer of elegies, a poet, and a satirist who exhorted his hearers to virtue.

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See G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers (1957).


Xenophanes
?570--?480 bc, Greek philosopher and poet, noted for his monotheism and regarded as a founder of the Eleatic school


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It may well be that these stories are not higher than fact nor yet true to fact: they are, very possibly, what Xenophanes says of them.
In this respect the difference between them is like that between Xenophanes and Parmenides.
 
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