An introductory discussion of the Eleatic school, including Parmenides on the ultimate unchanging oneness of reality and some of the issues that arise regarding multiplicity and change (basically because such phenomena involve nonbeing, which is something that cannot itself be thought and so cannot exist), as well as one of Zeno's famous paradoxes, that of the dichotomy (perhaps second only to his paradox of the arrow). There's then a brief discussion of Aristotle's treatment of the paradox on the basis of his famous distinction between actual infinity and potential infinity.

These clips come from a program on classical Greek philosophy in a series on great ideas in philosophy.

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