Understanding the Eleatic School: Unchanging Truths and the Concept of the One

The Eleatic school was a philosophical movement that emerged in ancient Greece in the 5th century BCE. It was founded by Parmenides, who argued that change and motion are illusions, and that true reality is unchanging and eternal. The Eleatics believed that the only genuine knowledge is of timeless, unchanging truths, and that sensory experience is deceptive and cannot be trusted. They also believed in the concept of the "One," which is the ultimate reality that underlies all things.

The Eleatic school had a significant influence on later philosophical movements, including Plato's theory of forms and Aristotle's concept of the unmoved mover. The school's emphasis on the importance of reason and the rejection of sensory experience as a source of knowledge also influenced the development of Western philosophy.