Eleatics

The Eleatics were a group of pre-Socratic philosophers in the 5th century BC. They were centered in the ancient Italian Greek colony of Elea.

Members of this group include Parmenides, Melissus, Zeno and some have even numbered Xenophanes and Empedocles amongst these thinkers. The Eleatics advocated for a strict metaphysical view of monism. This was in response to the materialist monism proposed by their predecessors at the Ionian school.