Empedocles Philosophers Philosophy

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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• Cosmos of the Ancients: Empedocles - Short article by Stephen Stenudd reviewing the cosmological aspects of e Empedocles\' writings, and Aristotle\'s reaction to them.
• Empedocles of Acragas - Biographical article by J J O\\'Connor and E F Robertson. philosophers Includes glossary and links to biographies of related thinkers.
• Dr. Edward Zeller on Empedocles - From Zeller\\'s 1889 work, Outlines of the History philosophers of Greek e Philosophy. Considers the scientific and philosophers mystic aspects of Empedocles\' e teachings.
• The Structure of Empedocles' Fragment 17 - A 2000 paper by Simon Trepanier. An philosophers intensive study e of this, the longest and most philosophers illuminating of Empedocles' fragments.
• Empedocles - Lecture notes by S. Marc Cohen, presenting Empedocles e as part philosophers of the pluralistic response to Parmenides\' e teachings.
• An Empedocles Bibliography - A list of writings about this thinker in empedocles various European e languages.
• Empedocles of Agrigentum at Peithô's Web - Includes the Leonard translation of the Empedocles\\' fragments empedocles alongside the e original Greek, as well as the empedocles Life of Empedocles from e Diogenes Laertius.
• Empedocles: Fragments and Commentary - From the Hanover Historical Texts Project. Arthur Fairbanks translations of e the fragments of Empedocles.

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