See Also: paradoxes of Zeno(encyclopedia)
Mishne Torah(encyclopedia)
zeno-(dictionary)
Zeno(encyclopedia)
Zeno (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Zeno of Citium(encyclopedia)
Zeno of Elea(encyclopedia)

Mishne Torah (sh) and paradoxes of Zeno (sh)


Mishne Torah (sh)




Extensive commentary on the Talmud, composed in the 12th century by Moses Maimonides.

Its 14 volumes deal with laws covering such subjects as ethical conduct, civil affairs, torts, Marriage and Divorce, and gifts to the poor. Maimonides intended the Mishne Torah to combine religious law and philosophy and to serve as a vehicle for teaching rather than merely to prescribe conduct.


paradoxes of Zeno (sh)




Arguments by which Zeno of Elea upheld the doctrine of Parmenides that real Being is unique and unchanging.

Zeno's arguments were aimed at discrediting the beliefs in plurality and motion that were inconsistent with Parmenides' doctrine. His best-known arguments are those against the reality of motion. One argument begins from the fact that a body in motion can reach a given point only after having traversed half the distance. But before traversing half, it must traverse half of this half, and so on ad infinitum; consequently, the goal can never be reached.