Zeno of elea biography of albert einstein

Greek philosopher (c. 495 – c. 430 BC)

This article is about the presocratic philosopher famed for his paradoxes. For founder of Stoicism, see Zeno of Citium.

For other uses, see Zeno.

Zeno of Elea (; Ancient Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεᾱ́της; c. 490 – c. 430 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea, in Southern Italy (Magna Graecia). He was a student of Parmenides and one of the Eleatics.

Zeno defended his instructor's belief in monism, the idea that only one single entity exists that makes up all of reality.

Zeno of elea biography of albert einstein

He rejected the existence of space, time, and motion. To disprove these concepts, he developed a series of paradoxes to demonstrate why they are impossible. Though his original writings are lost, subsequent descriptions by Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius, and Simplicius of Cilicia have allowed study of his ideas.

Zeno's arguments are divided into two different types: his arguments against plurality, or the existence of multiple object