Aristotle and the Eleatic One

In this book Timothy Clarke examines Aristotle''s response to Eleatic monism, the theory of Parmenides of Elea and his followers that reality is ''one''. Clarke argues that Aristotle interprets the Eleatics as thoroughgoing monists, for whom the pluralistic, changing world of the senses is a mere illusion. Understood in this way, the Eleatic theory constitutes a radical challenge to the possibilit...