| Title | Digging up a Paradox: A Philological Note on Zeno's Stadium |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1982 |
| Journal | Rheinisches Museum für Philologie |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Mansfeld, Jaap |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Of Zeno's four arguments against the reality of motion transmitted by Aristotle, the fourth, the so-called Stadium (Vors. 29 A 28), is perhaps the most difficult. The difficulties in- volved are of two sorts: philological problems on the one hand, questions of a philosophical nature on the other. In the present paper, I am concerned with the first sort, not the second, al- though I shall perhaps not be successful in keeping the latter out altogether. A study of the philosophical discussions to be found in the learned literature, however, has convinced me that the first problem to be solved is that of the interpretation of Ari- stotle's text. There is a general feeling that Aristotle, in reporting and arguing against Zeno's argument, somehow failed. I believe his report is sufficiently clear; although Aristotle's argument contra Zeno is not, perhaps, satisfactory in every respect, Zeno's original paradox can be found in his text. I shall attempt to show that, in order to find it, we must begin by taking both the topo- graphy of the stadium and the position of the bodies in it into account, which several recent reconstructions, however satis- factory they may appear to be in other respects, fail to do. [Introduction, p. 1] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/EF1mJnrpjw148o7 |
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| Title | Digging up a Paradox: A Philological Note on Zeno's Stadium |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1982 |
| Journal | Rheinisches Museum für Philologie |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Mansfeld, Jaap |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/EF1mJnrpjw148o7 |
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