By: A.C. Grayling Parmenides was born to a wealthy family at Elea either around the year 515 BCE, as Diogenes Laertius says, or a decade or two later, so that Plato’s claim that the young Socrates met him around 450 BCE can be regarded as plausible. Diogenes follows Aristotle in
Read MoreBy: A.C. Grayling Parmenides was born to a wealthy family at Elea either around the year 515 BCE, as Diogenes Laertius says, or a decade or two later, so that Plato’s claim