21. Empedocles --  Encyclopædia Britannica According to legend only, empedocles was a selfstyled god who brought about his own death, as English poet Matthew Arnold in empedocles on Etna, by flinging himself into http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=33119

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23. Empedocles empedocles (Kirk Raven). The roots are eternal. In contrast with Parmenide s Entity which is homogenous and unchanging, Entity for empedocles. is a mixture. http://www.drury.edu/ess/history/ancient/Empedocles.html

from Agrigentum in Sicily in Magna Graecia. Not content to be a king - wanted to be a god. Some thought him a demigod- others a charlatan. He. travelled around Sicily and the Peloponnesus teaching and performing cures, venerated by many. In order to have a death worthy of a deity, he threw himself into Mt. Aetna - or, as another story would have it, was taken up by the gods, somewhat like Elijah. Cosmology - two suns, one authentic sun, fire, and another reflected sun, the one we see. (It had been discovered that the moon shines by reflected light - he drew the analogy Night is produced by the interposition of the earth between the sun and fire (?). Discovered the true cause of eclipses The planets and stars are authentic, not reflected fire: the stars are fixed, the planets free-moving. Light is something which travels very quickly. Biological notions - the first things were trees (plants have sex) Heat is principally male Human beings are produced by a chance aggregation of separate components and only those properly organized survive (compare this antecedent of 19th ct. "natural selection" with

24. Empedocles Of Akragas (ca. 492-ca. 432 BC) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Sci empedocles of Akragas (ca. 492ca. 432 BC), References. Kingsley, P. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition. http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Empedocles.html

Branch of Science Philosophers Nationality Greek Empedocles of Akragas (ca. 492-ca. 432 BC) Greek philosopher who was a subscriber to the Pythagorean school of natural philosophers, but without the mysticism of his contemporaries. He felt that we must use the data from our senses, even though they could not be completely trusted. He believed the Moon shone by reflected light. He postulated that all substances were made up of air, earth, fire, and water combined in different proportions. He is the first to have suggested the humoral theory, later adopted by the Hippocratics . He also proposed a crude theory of evolution. Hippocrates of Cos Pythagoras Additional biographies: Bonn Greek and Roman Science and Technology References Kingsley, P. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1997.

25. Plato.evansville.edu/public/burnet/ch5b.htm BBC History - empedocles (c.490 BC - c.430 BC)The great magician empedocles was born at the beginning of the fifth century BC, and was the first to suggest that the world around us be made of elements. http://plato.evansville.edu/public/burnet/ch5b.htm

26. TMTh:: EMPEDOCLES OF ACRAGAS PHYSICIST, ENGINEER, PHYSICIAN, INVENTOR. empedocles OF ACRAGAS (fl. 495 435 BC) Life Son of the Olympic champion Meton, student http://www.tmth.edu.gr/en/aet/5/41.html

Home Ancient Greek Scientists AGRICULTURALISTS ARCHITECTS ... PHYSICISTS PHYSICIST, ENGINEER, PHYSICIAN, INVENTOR EMPEDOCLES OF ACRAGAS (fl. 495 - 435 BC) Life Son of the Olympic champion Meton, student of Xenophanes of Colophon, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and Parmenides of Elea, Empedocles was a great naturalist who sought to construct a coherent theory of the physical world. He is cited by Diogenes Laertius, Plutarch, John Tsetses, Iamblichus and Vitruvius. Work Empedocles did not accept "coming-into-being" and "passing-away" in the strict sense of the words. Rather, in order to explain changes in matter he posited a cohesive elemental matter of which the entire world is composed, based on the four fundamental elements of fire, water, earth and air. In his theory, change was brought about by the action and interaction of two forces: "Love" (or attraction) and "Strife" (or repulsion). In the beginning, matter was "held together by Love in the form of a sphere". Then "Strife intervened to dissociate the elements, and whirlwinds and vortexes were produced". Empedocles, in other words, foreshadowed modern theories of nebulae, atoms and nuclei; he was also the first to formulate a corpuscular theory of matter. He invented a clepsydra based on water pressure and the difference in pressure in a void.

27. § 23 Dr. Edward Zeller On empedocles. empedocles of Agrigentum was born about 4950 BC, and died at the age of sixty, about 435-0 BC By http://philos.wright.edu/Dept/PHL/Class/PS/ZelEmped.html

Dr. Edward Zeller On Empedocles Empedocles of Agrigentum was born about 495-0 B.C., and died at the age of sixty, about 435-0 B.C. By his impassioned eloquence and practical energy, he, like his father Meton, long maintained himself at the head of the Agrigentine democracy; but he attached still more importance to the functions of religious teacher, prophet, physician, and worker of miracles, which his remarkable personality, resembling that of Pythagoras, enabled him to exercise. Concerning his death many romantic stories, some deifying him, others depreciatory, early came into circulation; the most probable account is that having finally lost the popular favour, he died an exile in the Peloponnesus. Of the writings which bear his name, only the two didactic poems, the fusika and the kaqrmoi , can with certainty be ascribed to him; numerous fragments of both have been preserved. aporroai ) one becoming detached and entering into the pores of the other; where the pores and effluences of two bodies correspond to one another, they attract each other, as in the case of the magnet and iron. In order, however, that the substances may come together or separate, moving forces must also be present, and of these there mast be twoa combining and a separating force. Empedocles calls the former Love ( filothj, storgh

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Empedocles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Empedocles 490 BC 430 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum in Sicily He maintained that all matter is made up of four classical elements (which he called roots): water earth air and fire . In addition to these, he postulated something called Love (philia) to explain the attraction of different forms of matter, and of something called Strife (neikos) to account for their separation. He considered these to be distinct substances, with the four elements in solution with them. Empedocles was also a mystic and a poet, and some consider him the inventor of the study of rhetoric Gorgias of Leontini was his student, and it is probably from Empedocles that Gorgias developed the notion of rhetoric as magic. Views Article Discussion Edit History Personal tools Log in Navigation Main Page Community portal Current events Recent changes ... Donations Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Special pages Other languages Deutsch Nederlands Polski This page was last modified 07:30, 9 May 2004. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see for details).

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30. Biography - Empedocles empedocles (ca. 492432 BC). Latest Modification July 19, 1996. empedocles lived in Acragas, which is now known as Agrigento, Sicily. http://www.physics.gmu.edu/classinfo/astr103/CourseNotes/ECText/Bios/empedocl.ht

Empedocles (ca. 492-432 B.C.) Latest Modification: July 19, 1996 Empedocles lived in Acragas, which is now known as Agrigento, Sicily. He was not only a natural philosopher, but also poet, seer, physician, social reformer, a person of great enthusiasm, known as a charltan by some, and as a hero by others. He was the author of a physical-cosmological poem titled On Nature , now known only through fragments of quotations from later writers. It is perhaps through the influence of Xenophanes, who had settled in Sicily, that Empedocles can be placed in the Miletian tradition of natural philosophy that taught that principles in the form of matter were the only principles of all things. Xenophanes had postulated that everything was composed of two elements water and earth. Empedocles extend this postulate to four basic elements: earth, water, air, and fire. Different mixtures of these four elements produced the materials of our common experience. Maintained by J. C. Evans; jevans@hubble.gmu.edu

31. Theosophy Library Online - Great Teacher Series - EMPEDOCLES empedocles. There is empedocles was born there around 495 BC, the son of Meton, a prosperous and influential citizen. The wealthy http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/teachers/Empedocles.htm

EMPEDOCLES There is an oracle of Necessity, ancient decree of the gods, Eternal, sealed with solemn oaths, That whenever one of the daimones, allotted long life, Fouls his limbs by unwitting involvement in murder, Or in strife falsely swears an oath, He is exiled to wander for thirty thousand seasons Far from the blessed gods, being born in myriads of mortal forms, on the painful paths of life. The mighty ether chases him into the seas. The sea spews him forth upon the threshold of earth, And earth casts him into the sun's shining splendour. The sun hurls him into the whirling ether's vortex. Thus one receives him from the other, and all loathe him. I, too, am one of these now, fugitive from the gods And wanderer, for I yielded to raging Strife's enticement. EMPEDOCLES dike, justice or karma, showing the power of dialogue to touch the vital core of ethics. Even as a youth, Empedocles seized the opportunity of his fortunate birth to study philosophy, the arts and natural science. Politics came naturally to him. Unlike any of his older contemporaries, he sensed the significance of the attack of Xerxes upon Greece, and in 480 B.C. composed an epic poem on the subject. Neanthes claimed that Empedocles wrote seven tragedies in his youth, but none of these survive. He grasped the intent of the Milesian philosophers to establish the operating principles of nature, and he was so deeply impressed by the logical arguments of Parmenides that he composed his own philosophical poems in dactylic hexameters, the metre of the

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34. Philosophy - Presocratics: Empedocles empedocles (about 459 BC). empedocles was a citizen of Agrigentum in Sicily. Besides medical skill empedocles possessed poetical talents. http://www.archaeonia.com/philosophy/presocratics/empedocles.htm

EMPEDOCLES (about 459 B.C.) E mpedocles was a citizen of Agrigentum in Sicily. His date is roughly fixed for us by the well-attested fact that he went to Thourioi shortly after its foundation in 444/3 B.C . He was, therefore, contemporary with the meridian splendor of the Periclean age at Athens , and he must have met Herodotus and Protagoras at Thourioi. He was distinguished not only as a philosopher, but also for his knowledge of natural history and medicine , and as a poet and statesman. After the death of his father Meto , who was a wealthy citizen of Agrigentum, he acquired great weight among his fellow-citizens by espousing the popular party and favoring democratic measures. His consequence in the State became at length so great that he ventured to assume several of the distinctions of royalty, particularly a purple robe, a golden girdle, a Delphic crown, and a train of attendants. He combined scientific study with a mystical religion of the Orphic type , but he differed from Pythagoras in the direction his scientific inquires took, focusing on medicine, rather than mathematics . That accounts for the physiological interest that arks his speculations. The skill which he possessed in medicine and natural philosophy allowed him to perform many wonders, which he passed upon the multitude for miracles. He pretended to drive away noxious winds from his country and thereby put a stop to epidemic diseases. He is said to have checked, by the power of

35. Empedocles, Greece, Ancient History empedocles (c.490430 BC). Philosopher, poet and statesman from Agrigentum on Sicily. empedocles instituted democracy after owerthrowing the oligarchy. http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/history/ancient/empedocles.htm

Empedocles (c.490-430 BC) Philosopher, poet and statesman from Agrigentum on Sicily. His teachers were Pythagoras and Parmenides. Just like Pythagoras, Empedocles said to remember previous lives, not only as various humans, but also as a fish and a bush for example. Empedocles instituted democracy after owerthrowing the oligarchy. As a philosopher, he believed reality is cyclical and consists of the four elements earth, air, fire and water. These elements contract and separate according to the two opposing forces love and hate. He also formed a primitive thery on evolution, declating that humans and animals evolve from antecedent forms. Empedocles is said to have comitted suicide by jumbing into the volcano Etna. The volcano threw back one of his sandals, though. Webmistress V.E.K. Sandels Home Who is Who in ... -Antigonos Gonatas -Antigonos Monophtalmos -Antipater -Antisthenes -Anyte -Apelles ... -Zeuxis

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Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Empedocles Empedocles 490 BC 430 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum in Sicily He maintained that all matter is made up of four classical elements (which he called roots water earth air and fire . In addition to these, he postulated something called Love philia ) to explain the attraction of different forms of matter, and of something called Strife ( neikos ) to account for their separation. He considered these to be distinct substances, with the four elements in solution with them. This article is from Wikipedia . All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

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EMPEDOCLES EMPEDOCLES As man, animal and plant are composed of the same elements in different proportions, there is an identity of nature in them all. They all have sense and understanding; in man, however, and especially in the blood at his heart, mind has its peculiar seat. But mind is always dependent upon the body, and varies with its changing constitution. Hence the precepts of morality are with Empedocles largely dietetic. It is not easy to harmonize these quasi-scientific theories with the theory of transmigration of souls which Empedocles seems to expound. Probably the doctrine that the divinity (aijswp) passes from element to element, nowhere finding a home, is a mystical way of teaching the continued identity of the principles which are at the bottom of every phase of development from inorganic nature to man. At the top of the scale are the prophet and the physician, those who have best learned the secret of life; they are next to the divine. One law, an identity of elements, pervades all nature; existence is one from end to end; the plant and the animal are links in a chain where man is a link too; and even the distinction between male and female is transcended. The beasts are kindred with man; he who eats their flesh is not much better than a cannibal. Looking at the opposition between these and the ordinary opinions, we are not surprised that Empedocles notes the limitation and narrowness of human perceptions. We see, he says, but a part, and fancy that we have grasped the whole. But the senses cannot lead to truth; thought and reflection must look at the thing on every side. It is the business of a philosopher, while he lays bare the fundamental difference of elements, to display the identity that subsists between what seem unconnected parts of the universe.

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