PHILOSOPHER

Zeno of Elea

490 BC - 425 BC

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Zeno of Elea (; Ancient Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεᾱ́της; c. 490 – c. 430 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea, in Southern Italy (Magna Graecia). He was a student of Parmenides and one of the Eleatics. Zeno defended his instructor's belief in monism, the idea that only one single entity exists that makes up all of reality. He rejected the existence of space, time, and motion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zeno of Elea is the 60th most popular philosopher (down from 57th in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Italy (down from 75th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Philosopher.

Zeno of Elea is most famous for his paradoxes, which are a series of arguments that purport to show that motion is impossible.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Zeno of Elea ranks 60 out of 1,267. Before him are Hannah Arendt, Mikhail Bakunin, Henri Bergson, Plotinus, Karl Popper, and Ramakrishna. After him are Zhuang Zhou, Epictetus, Thomas More, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Zhu Xi, and Antonio Gramsci.

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Among people born in 490 BC, Zeno of Elea ranks 3. Before him are Empedocles, and Phidias. After him are Nehemiah, Archelaus I of Macedon, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Bacchylides, Agis II, Crateuas of Macedon, Ion of Chios, Nepherites I, and Oenopides. Among people deceased in 425 BC, Zeno of Elea ranks 2. Before him is Herodotus. After him is Achilles Painter.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Zeno of Elea ranks 144 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Marcellus II (1501), Pope Formosus (816), Pope Paul IV (1476), Lucius Verus (130), Ennio Morricone (1928), and Amedeo Avogadro (1776). After him are Pope Gregory XIV (1535), Antoninus Pius (86), Pope Nicholas V (1397), Paolo Veronese (1528), Pope Clement X (1590), and Pope Clement IX (1600).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Zeno of Elea ranks 7. Before him are Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Thomas Aquinas (1225), Maria Montessori (1870), Parmenides (-501), Lucretius (-94), and Empedocles (-490). After him are Antonio Gramsci (1891), Pliny the Elder (23), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Boethius (480), Bonaventure (1221), and Marsilio Ficino (1433).

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