CLAS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Eleatics, Xenophanes, Arche
19 Jun 2014
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The infinite : as well, there are the atomists (democritus and leucippus) who come up with the idea that there are small, indivisible particles that lie at the heart of the physical universe. He said that logos enables you to understand the balance and harmony that is present, so that reality is as it is. All philosophers say that we are not surrounded by chaos; there is order, as kosmos suggests the world is a structured one. It is completely consistent, all-enduring, thus true reality is consist of a sphere moving off in all directions with the same density and infinite in extent. This idea is supported by zeno"s paradoxes. In these paradoxes, he shows that motion is impossible, and if there is no motion, there is no change and thus parmenides is correct and reality is as he describes.
