TY - JOUR
TI - Everything in Its Right Place: Zeno’s Paradox of Place: Zeno’s Paradox of Place in Part 2 of the Parmenides
AU - de Souza, Saloni
TI - Everything in Its Right Place: Zeno’s Paradox of Place: Zeno’s Paradox of Place in Part 2 of the Parmenides
AB - 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.
VL - 2024
IS - Volume 56
PY - 2024
SN - 0078-6500
C1 - 2657-5337
SP - 65
EP - 87
DO - 10.4467/00786500.ORG.24.006.20208
UR - 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
KW - infinite regress
KW - paradox
KW - place
KW - space
KW - reception