Melissos (English spelling)

Japanese: メリッソス（英語表記）Melissos

Born around 480 BC in Samos
[Died around 400 BC] Ancient Greek philosopher. A disciple of Parmenides, he was the last important figure in the Eleatic school. He was also a naval commander, and commanded the Samos fleet during the Athenian revolt of 441-440 BC. His main philosophical activity was the defense of Parmenides' philosophy, which established eternal and unchanging true existence in contrast to the apparent world, and he did not develop his own ideas much. While Zeno, a senior member of the Eleatic school, defended Parmenides while criticizing those who accepted the so-called material existence and the world's coming into being and changing, Melissus attempted to prove it using the same reasoning as his teacher. That is, since nothing comes from nothing, existence is eternal, infinite, and one without beginning or end. Therefore, emptiness cannot exist because it is non-existent, and movement is impossible.

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Japanese:

[生]前480頃.サモス
[没]前400頃
古代ギリシアの哲学者。パルメニデスの弟子で，エレア派の最後の重要人物。海軍指揮官でもあり，前 441～440のアテネヘの反乱ではサモスの艦隊を指揮した。彼の哲学の主たる活動は，永遠不変の真実在を仮象的世界に対して立てたパルメニデス哲学の弁護であり，独自の思想的展開はあまりみられない。同じエレア派の先輩ゼノンがいわゆる事物的存在と世界の生成変化を認める人々を批判しつつパルメニデスを弁護したのに対し，メリッソスは師と同様の推論によって証明を試みた。すなわち，無から有は生じないがゆえに，存在は初めも終りもなく永遠であり，無限であり，一者である。したがってまた空虚は非在であるがゆえに存しえず，運動はありえないとした。

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