Core+Philosophies

__The Core Philosophies of Zeno__

Zeno's core philosophies were based off of previous philosophers ideas. Zeno mainly contradicted the ideas or beliefs of prior statements. Many people know him or refer to Zeno as the inventor of dialectic. Dialectic is basically the ordinary practice of a dialogue between two people who hold different ideas of viewpoints who wish to persuade each other. Zeno stated that the participants, even if they do not agree, share at least some meanings or principles of inference. This means that although a group of people may be arguing, they still share something in common. Another one of Zeno's core philosophies are his paradoxes. Zeno's paradoxes are a set of problems generally thought to have been devised by Zeno of Elea to support Parmenides’s doctrine that "all is one" and that, contrary to the evidence of our senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion. His most famous paradoxes are called __Achilles and the Tortoise__, the __Dichotomy Argument__, and __That of an Arrow in Flight__. It is usually assumed, based on Plato's Parmenides, that Zeno took on the project of creating these paradoxes because other philosophers had created paradoxes against Parmenides's view. Zeno's paradoxes were a major problem for ancient and medieval philosophers who found most proposed solutions somewhat unsatisfactory. More modern methods using calculus have generally satisfied mathematicians and engineers, while developments in physics have called into question the idea that position, time, and speed can ever be exactly determined. Many philosophers still hesitate to say that all paradoxes are completely solved, while pointing out also that attempts to deal with the paradoxes have resulted in many intellectual discoveries. Zeno's paradoxes have puzzled, and challenged philosophers, mathematicians, and physicists for many centuries.

This comic explains one of Zeno's philosophies in which he explains his views on movement. [] []