The Eleatic twist: the strong dialectic against monism worked out by Plato and Aristotle

Authors

  • Pilar Spangenberg Investigadora em la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Keywords:

dialectic, Zeno, Plato, Aristotle

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the kind of argumentation used by Plato and Aristotle against monism so as to illuminate a particular dialectic strategy. This strategy, instead of focusing on the relationship between the different beliefs of the interlocutor (as the Socratic elenchus does), enquires into the sense of the thesis being maintained, in order to show that the very statement of the thesis involves the adversary in a contradiction. It aims to show also that this kind of argumentation implies a twist in the strategies built into the Eleatic tradition, highlighting the figure of Zeno in this regard.

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2017-10-29

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No. 39 (2017)

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