Brief biography of Zenon

The Elai School of the Aporia Zenon Zenon Elaisk launched the Parmenida opening into a circulation among people. People, feeling the greatness of this, went to him. The main task for Zenon is to protect the principle of Parmenides: there is only being - one, eternal, motionless. Zeno was called bilingual, because he could speak both the language of opinion and in the true language.

He was a popularizer, but not reducing philosophy to opinion. Philosophy in his speeches to ordinary people remained philosophy. How did he defend Parmenides? He took the point of view of ordinary consciousness or opinion, consisting in the fact that there is no single, but there is much - arising and disappearing. And he showed that with its sequential conduct, many apores arise - hopeless situations indicating that the point of view should be left.

The contradiction of opinions: what seems to be being recognized for being itself. And what seems to be being first of all? It is - what a joy. Zenon showed that this point of view was contrary to itself and therefore refutes itself. Opinions because only exist that people do not think out to the end. Zenon’s aporia about the set, let's say that being is not one and not indivisible, that there is only much, infinitely much - fine.

But, is there much if there is not one? After all, each of many is one. But before that, we argued that: one is not, but there is only a lot. They carved themselves. There is no much without one - the first victory over the opinion. There cannot be a lot of certain values ​​because each of many, if it has a size, should be either infinitely large divided to infinity, if much - in it, or infinitely small, if much - outside it.

And if each of many has no size, then it must be nothing that it is nothing, adding to the other, it does not increase it, but, taking off - does not reduce it. If the existing is multiple, then one and the same turns out to be the number and the final because there are as many as there are as much - no more and no less, and the endless because there must be different between any two perishes.

Therefore, nothing definite can be said about a lot. Therefore, it is better to think one. Zenon’s aporia on movement seems to be a movement. Why is there? Parmenides: "Being does not move." But think about it! In the place where they are, they do not move, but where they are not there are also not moving. So much is moving? No, it turns out that moving does not move. With which we congratulate.

The opinion that there is a lot without one, thereby claiming the endless divisibility of space and time. But in this case, the quick -legged Achles did not catch up with the turtle, not Zenon claimed the way as he was attributed, but it turns out, in the opinion, not whose wealth he showed. For during the time he comes to the point where she had just been, the turtle will have time to crawl forward a little.

Therefore, if he still catches up with it, is it true that space and time are divisible to infinity? Is it true that there is no indivisible, that is, one as such? Regarding the Zenon apores about the movement, A. Pushkin wrote the poem “Movement”: there is no movement, said the sage of Bradaty.

The other was silent and began to walk before him. He could not have objected more; They praised all the answer is intricate. But, gentlemen, a funny case of this other example into memory leads to me: after all, every day the sun goes before us, but the stubborn Galileo is right. We all see the movement, but does this mean that there is a movement for thought? And the crowd will always rejoice in his refutation by walking, as if the philosopher does not know that you can walk, move.

Why does he teach me?