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Empedocles
World explanation
Earth, air, water and fire can neither be created nor destroyed but their proportion in objects changes constantly.
He thinks that change occurs because the material objects are made from also changes
What generates the change: objects come together and fall apart due to the influence of love and strife (the two forces of the Cosmos, referring to the forces of attraction and repulsion).
Even though these 4 roots don't change, they do intermingle in order to create organisms. They separate when organisms die.
The Cosmic stages (the rule of love, the advance of strife, the rule of strife, the advance of love) - the Eternal Cosmic cycle
Love - compels individuals to intermingle and behave virtuously.
Strife - compels individuals to behave destructively.
Arché (the roots of all things)
fire
earth
air
water
Interesting facts
Nietzsche called him "the most multi-faced figure of ancient Greek philosophy"
He was different because he had both scientific/rational mind (William Guthrie) and deep spiritual longing
Empedocles the God: "I an immortal God, no longer mortal, wander among you..." - he thought him being a God was imminent.
Sources
pp 29-30, in Evans, C. Stephen, A History of Western Philosophy: From Pre-socratics to Postmodernism, Downers Grove, Illinois, InterVarsity Press, 2018
"Introduction to Empedocles." YouTube, Academy of Ideas, 13 Jan 2013
Photo:
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Biography
490-430 BC
From Sicily
