The eleatic heritage and ambiguity of no-being in Ancient materialism

Authors

  • João Quartim de Morais

Keywords:

atornism, being, no-being, epicurism

Abstract

Mellissos argued that the being is both compact and infinite; were it a finite sphere, as Parmenides sustained, there would be beyond ir the emptness, therefore the the non-being would be. This is an absurd consequence found in the eleatic ontology, from which Leucippos and Democritos retained the attributes of the being, transposing them to a rnicrocosrnic scale: the elementary corpuscles are finite in regards to their magnitude, and infinite in number, moving against the backdrop of emptness. We examine, in particular, how these questions are treated in the phisics of Epicures.

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Published

2015-09-30

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No. 12 (2004): O Belo e a Letra

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