Zeno_Ans_The_First_Paradox_Of_Motion

Zeno Ans The First Paradox Of Motion Name: Preven Chetty Zeno of Elea and the first paradox of motion {including its correlation to the theory on Maya and an appendix on Lao Tzu} --------------------------------------------- In order to understand Zeno and his arguments against motion it would be helpful to know his background. This is difficult because Zeno was alive in 450 B.C and there are few materials about him. Most of our information is indirect and possibly all of Zeno’s arguments on motion have emerged from one book. What we can safely assume however was that Zeno was a disciple of Parmenides and a supporter of his theories. Background Theories Parmenides (c.515,445 B.C) believed that there is no real change in the world and that all of reality is actually one. Parmenides changed the course zeno, motion, finite, time, reality, zeno’s, distance, therefore, because, infinite, parmenides, first, argument, yet, single, one, happy, body, thus, paradox, know, fish, take, space, movement, lao, infinitely, impossible, cannot, arguments, amount, very, tzu, philosophy, order