Borges interpreter of Zeno of Elea and Plato
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It is very likely that Borges would have liked, for different reasons, to converse with some of the early philosophers, especially with Zeno of Elea and Plato. In the case of Zeno, the rebutter of “real reality” which relies on space and time, Borges found a true “fellow traveler”, and devoted two articles of Discusión to his paradoxes. The case of Plato is different, since he used him as an example of his own philosophical “evolution”, as he went from a merciless criticism of his theory of Ideas in Historia de la eternidad, where they are presented as “museum pieces”, to a true praise of their dynamic and vital character in the second edition of the same work, thirty years later.
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