Word: zeno
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Xenocrates and Zeno of the Eleatic School contended that all Being was one and unchangeable, and that decay was non-Being. Parmenides had a similar belief. Opposed to these ideas was the doctrine of eternal change or transition, ceaseless flux and flow. Democritus, accepting in part the doctrine of Parmenides, evolved the Atomic philosophy, which treated from a scientific point of view, still lives in the atomic theory of today...
...athlete or boxer who lived in Athens in the time of Euclid and Archimedes. He was not by profession a poet, but when he came to Athens he soon saw that there was something better to live for than boxing. So he put himself under the instruction of Zeno, a Stoic philosopher. But since he was a poor man he was obliged to work nearly all night to support himself. He was summoned before the Areopagus because he had no visible means of support, but when the council learned the true state of affairs, they commended him and made...