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Democitrus
Atomism
Metaphysical idea
Main idea: reality consists of tiny, indivisible particles (atoms) that move about in the void.
What separates the physical objects is not really nothing, but the void.
Human persons, like everything else in the universe, are composed of atoms in the void, and what we call thinking must be a process that is explained by atoms.
The void is not just nonbeing, but a kind of something, a place or container in which matter moves.
Atoms are indivisible particles that are too small to see.
Atoms can neither be created nor destroyed.
Atoms can be different, depending on size, shape, and location.
Atoms have always been in motion and continue to move in a particular direction until they collide with other atoms.
When such collisions take place, atoms some times interlock with other atoms, particularly when their shapes allow this. The resulting combinations produce what we call physical objects, which persist until they are struck by other atoms in ways that cause them to separate.
Developed by Democitrus
Nature vs. Convention
Biography
Born in Abdera, Thrace (an area north of Greece)
Lived 100 years (460 - 360 BC.)
He has written over 60 works
Ethics, physics, astronomy, medicine, musical history, geography, epistemology, mathematics, agriculture, painting, botany
"Epithet genius"
He was interested in a wide range of subjects
Interesting facts about the philosopher's life
Democitrus is not really "pre-Socratic", but a contemporary of Socrates, who overlapped with Plato
Democitrus thinks the good life for a human person consists in what he calls “cheerfulness,” a state of content edness in which the soul is “disturbed by no fear or superstition or any other emotion.
Surprisingly, Democitrus is not an atheist.
However, on his materialistic view, the gods must be long lasting combinations of atoms, like everything else.
