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See also: Zénon

Zénon d' Élée (in Greek Ζήνων Zếnôn ), born towards -495, died towards -430, is a Greek Philosophe .

Called by Plato Palamède d' Elée , he attended the school of Parménide, located in the south of the Italy.

Inventor of the Dialectique (art of the short speech), it is mainly known for his paradoxes which did not have, at his time, the deserved repercussion (there is hardly but Aristote which tries to refute these paradoxes). However the latter, although little recognized, clearly show a great clear thinking at this man who was one of the first to call into question the Mythologie and the Croyances of its time. The current history of the Science and the Logique recognizes the major importance of it.

The account of died of Zénon, constituting an example of courage and resistance vis-a-vis tyranny, proves that it was not only one cold logician but also a committed man:

“having undertaken to reverse the Néarque tyrant (...), it was stopped (...). Questioned on these accomplices and the weapons which it had made deliver to Lipara, it quotes the names of all the friends of the tyrant, in the intention to insulate it as of his. Then, under pretext of confidential revelations on certain people, it bit the tyrant with the ear cruelly and only released taken wounded mortally (...). At the end, it sliced its own language with its teeth and spit it to him with the face”. (Diogène Laërce, Lives of the famous philosophers , IX, 26-27)

“Zénon of Élée, of which Denys required in what the superiority of philosophy consists, answered: " In the contempt of death! " and it is with impassibility that, under the blows of the tyrant, it confirmed his matter until death. ” (Apologetic Tertullien, , 50)

Paradoxes

See also: Paradoxes of Zénon

It is often believed that these paradoxes only aim at proving that the movement does not exist. They should be replaced in a prospect much broader, that the thought éléate of “infinite” or the “unlimited one”. In fact, Zénon rises clearly against the vision pythagorician of the world: let us recall only that “it is Pythagore the first which gave the name of cosmos i.e. beauty, order with the envelope of the universe, because of the organization which is seen there. ” (Ætius, Opinion , II, I, I). With what Zénon retorts: “if the place is something, it must be in something”, which of a thing with another leads to “unlimited”.

The method employed by Zénon is always that of the dichotomy : “If one in oneself is indivisible, then, according to the opinion of Zénon, nothing will exist. ” (Metaphysical Aristote, )

The language of the philosopher

  • Anaxarque of Abdère also spit its language with the face of a tyrant
  • Ésope: “The language is the best and worst things”

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