Empedocles E Philosophers
Empedocles E Philosophers
Empedocles
Empedocles of Acragas (or Akragas or Agrigentum), fl. mid-5th BC. One of the greatest of the Greek Presocratic thinkers, he put forth a view of the world as composed of four elements, earth, air, fire and water, whose relation to one another was governed by the principles of Love and Strife.
He is generally considered either a "qualitative pluralist" or an Eleatic thinker.
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See Also:
- Lecture notes by S. Marc Cohen, presenting Empedocles as part of the pluralistic response to Parmenides' teachings.
- From the Hanover Historical Texts Project. Arthur Fairbanks translations of the fragments of Empedocles.
- Biographical article by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson. Includes glossary and links to biographies of related thinkers.
- A 2000 paper by Simon Trepanier. An intensive study of this, the longest and most illuminating of Empedocles' fragments.
- Short article by Stephen Stenudd reviewing the cosmological aspects of Empedocles' writings, and Aristotle's reaction to them.
- Includes the Leonard translation of the Empedocles' fragments alongside the original Greek, as well as the Life of Empedocles from Diogenes Laertius.
- A list of writings about this thinker in various European languages.
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