Definitions for Xenophanes
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1. Xenophanesnoun

   Greek philosopher (560-478 BC)

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1. Xenophanesnoun

   By extension, a profound or transformative religious thinker.

2. Xenophanesnoun

   A Greek given name.

3. Xenophanesnoun

   The pre-Socratic philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon.

4. Etymology: From Ξενοφάνης. The name means “of foreign appearance” and is composed of ξένος + φαίνω.

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1. Xenophanes

   Xenophanes of Colophon (; Ancient Greek: Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος [ksenopʰánɛːs ho kolopʰɔ̌ːnios]; c. 570 – c. 478 BC) was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of Homer from Ionia who travelled throughout the Greek-speaking world in early Classical Antiquity. As a poet, Xenophanes was known for his critical style, writing poems that are considered among the first satires. He also composed elegiac couplets that criticised his society's traditional values of wealth, excesses, and athletic victories. He also criticised Homer and the other poets in his works for representing the gods as foolish or morally weak. His poems have not survived intact; only fragments of some of his work survives in quotations by later philosophers and literary critics. Xenophanes is seen as one of the most important pre-Socratic philosophers. A highly original thinker, Xenophanes sought explanations for physical phenomena such as clouds or rainbows without references to divine or mythological explanations, but instead based on first principles. He also distinguished between different forms of knowledge and belief as an early proponent of epistemology. Later philosophers such as the Eleatics and the Pyrrhonists also saw Xenophanes as the founder of their doctrines, and interpreted his work in terms of those doctrines, although modern scholarship disputes these claims.

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1. xenophanes

   Xenophanes was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and social and religious critic who lived from 570-478 BC. Known as one of the pre-Socratic philosophers, he is famous for criticizing and rejecting the anthropomorphic depiction of gods in traditional Greek religion. Instead, he proposed that there was only one god who was incomparable and unlike humans in form and nature. He is also known for his doctrines associated with truth and knowledge, as well as pioneering literary forms that would later become philosophical dialogue and philosophical poetry.

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1. Xenophanes

   Xenophanes of Colophon was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and social and religious critic. Xenophanes lived a life of travel, having left Ionia at the age of 25 and continuing to travel throughout the Greek world for another 67 years. Some scholars say he lived in exile in Siciliy. Knowledge of his views comes from fragments of his poetry, surviving as quotations by later Greek writers. To judge from these, his elegiac and iambic poetry criticized and satirized a wide range of ideas, including Homer and Hesiod, the belief in the pantheon of anthropomorphic gods and the Greeks' veneration of athleticism. He is the earliest Greek poet who claims explicitly to be writing for future generations, creating "fame that will reach all of Greece, and never die while the Greek kind of songs survives."

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1. Xenophanes

   the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy, born in Asia Minor; was the first to enunciate the doctrine "all is one," but "without specifying," says Schwegler, "whether this unity was intellectual or moral.... Aristotle says he called God the one." See Eleatics.

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1. Xenophanes

   Greek philosopher, born Colophon, about 600 B.C. He founded the Eleatic school, and wrote a poem on Nature and Eleaticism, in which he ridiculed man making gods in his own image.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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3. ^ Wikipedia
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5. ^ Wikidata
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6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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7. ^ Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers
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