ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY 8: XENOPHANES

  • time of discovering other cultures (Ethiopeans)
  • contemporary to Pythagoras, connected to Parmenides, precursor of the Sophists
  • Poet questioning the Greek Gods
  • attribution of immoral qualities to them
  • anthropomorphising
  • cultural religious relativism
  • we must adopt a singular, stable, unmoved God (precursor of Parmenides)