Lifespan: 570 BC - 480 BC
Primary Base of Operations: Greek city of Colophon
Schools of Thought: Eleatic
Other Occupations: Poet, Scientist
Teacher: Pythagoras (maybe)
Primary Base of Operations: Greek city of Colophon
Schools of Thought: Eleatic
Other Occupations: Poet, Scientist
Teacher: Pythagoras (maybe)
- he maintained there was only one god -- namely, the world. God is one incorporeal eternal being, and, like the universe, spherical in form; that he is of the same nature with the universe, comprehending all things within himself; is intelligent, and pervades all things, but bears no resemblance to human nature either in body or mind.
- he taught that if there had ever been a time when nothing existed, nothing could ever have existed. Whatever is, always has been from eternity, without deriving its existence from any prior principles.
- his position is often classified as pantheistic, although his use of the term 'god' simply follows the use characteristic of the early cosmologists generally. There is no evidence that Xenophanes regarded this 'god' with any religious feeling, and all we are told about him (or rather about it) is purely negative.
- he taught that if there had ever been a time when nothing existed, nothing could ever have existed. Whatever is, always has been from eternity, without deriving its existence from any prior principles.
- his position is often classified as pantheistic, although his use of the term 'god' simply follows the use characteristic of the early cosmologists generally. There is no evidence that Xenophanes regarded this 'god' with any religious feeling, and all we are told about him (or rather about it) is purely negative.
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