Frases de Zenão de Eléia

Zenão de Eleia, foi um filósofo pré-socrático da escola eleática que nasceu em Eleia, hoje Vélia, Itália. Discípulo de Parmênides de Eleia, defendeu de modo apaixonado a filosofia do mestre.

Seu método consistia na elaboração de paradoxos. Deste modo, não pretendia refutar direto as teses que combatia mas sim mostrar os absurdos daquelas teses . Acredita-se que Zenão tenha criado cerca de quarenta destes paradoxos, todos contra a multiplicidade, a divisibilidade e o movimento .

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para Zenão.

Ao contrário de Heráclito de Éfeso, Zenão exerceu atividade política. Consta que teria participado de uma conspiração contra o tirano local, sendo preso e torturado até à morte. Considerado por Aristóteles como o criador da dialética. Wikipedia

✵ 490 a.C. – 425 a.C.

Zenão de Eléia: Frases em inglês

“The truth is, that these writings of mine were meant to protect the arguments of Parmenides against those who make fun of him and seek to show the many ridiculous and contradictory results which they suppose to follow from the affirmation of the one.”

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Zeno of Elea

As quoted in Parmenides by Plato, a portrayal of a discussion which begins between Socrates and Zeno, and then primarily Parmenides; as translated by Benjamin Jowett, Parmenides (1871)
My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One.
As translated in A History of Philosophy, Vol. I : Greece and Rome (1953) by Frederick Charles Copleston.
Contexto: The truth is, that these writings of mine were meant to protect the arguments of Parmenides against those who make fun of him and seek to show the many ridiculous and contradictory results which they suppose to follow from the affirmation of the one. My answer is addressed to the partisans of the many, whose attack I return with interest by retorting upon them that their hypothesis of the being of many, if carried out, appears to be still more ridiculous than the hypothesis of the being of one. Zeal for my master led me to write the book in the days of my youth, but some one stole the copy; and therefore I had no choice whether it should be published or not; the motive, however, of writing, was not the ambition of an elder man, but the pugnacity of a young one.