What about Plurality? Aristotle’s Discussion of Zeno’s Paradoxes

• Authors: Barbara M. Sattler

Abstracts

EN

While Aristotle provides the crucial testimonies for the paradoxes of motion, topos, and the falling millet seed, surprisingly he shows almost no interest in the paradoxes of plurality. For Plato, by contrast, the plurality paradoxes seem to be the central paradoxes of Zeno and Simplicius is our primary source for those. This paper investigates why the plurality paradoxes are not examined by Aristotle and argues that a close look at the context in which Aristotle discusses Zeno holds the answer to this question.

Keywords

EN

Aristotle; Zeno; Simplicius; Plato; plurality paradoxes; metaphysics; science

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Peitho. Examina Antiqua
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 87-105

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Barbara M. Sattler

• Ruhr-University Bochum

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pea.2021.1.5

Biblioteka Nauki

2016380