@article{01927bdf-ab44-7014-9c9f-e26c6c14625b,
author = {Saloni de Souza},
title = {Everything in Its Right Place: Zeno’s Paradox of Place: Zeno’s Paradox of Place in Part 2 of the Parmenides},
journal = {ORGANON},
volume = {2024},
number = {Volume 56},
year = {2024},
issn = {0078-6500},
pages = {65-87},keywords = {infinite regress; paradox; place; space; reception},
abstract = {Part 2 of the Parmenides is an obvious place to examine Plato’s reception of Zeno; after all, it is a demonstration apparently based on Zeno’s method and one of the main characters of the dialogue is Zeno. Nevertheless, it has received little attention as a source for understanding Plato’s engagement with the historical Zeno. Here, I show that Plato engages with Zeno’s paradox of place in the first deduction of Part 2 of the Parmenides—and in sophisticated and interesting ways. I begin by addressing some methodological issues. I then examine Eudemus’ account of Zeno’s paradox of place as reported by Simplicius and Aristotle’s account in his Physics 4.3 in order to reconstruct it. I proceed to examine the arguments for the one’s being nowhere, if it is, in the first deduction of the Parmenides. I argue that there are good reasons to suppose that Zeno’s paradox of place is at issue there. Finally, I reflect on what these arguments reveal about Plato’s engagement with Zeno’s paradox of place.},
doi = {10.4467/00786500.ORG.24.006.20208},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/organon/article/everything-in-its-right-place-zenos-paradox-of-place-zenos-paradox-of-place-in-part-2-of-the-parmenides}
}