Xenophanes

From Ancient Greek Ξενοφάνης (Xenophánēs). The name means “of foreign appearance” and is composed of ξένος (xénos, “foreign”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “appear”).

• IPA^(key): /zɛˈnɒfəniːz/

Xenophanes

1. A Greek given name.
2. The pre-Socratic philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon; by extension or reference, any profound or transformative religious thinker.
   • 1931, Hermann Schneider & Margaret Minna Green, The History of World Civilization‎, volume 2, page 614:

     Lucretius was the Xenophanes of Roman culture, a great theorist (visionary), an ardent disciple of Universal Nature, an enemy of all superstition, false gods, and false fear of death, […]

   • 1970, John Arthur Passmore, The Perfectibility of Man‎, page 77:

     No Xenophanes arose amongst the Jews to rebuke them for ascribing to Jahweh acts which would be accounted a shame and a disgrace amongst men; […]

   • 1985, Michael Despland, The Education of Desire‎, page 33:

     Euthyphro is no Xenophanes but as a religious and thinking man he can turn to great teachers; […]

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