Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Empedocles, Plato and Galen Strawson

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought

1524	For Empedocles thinking is almost identical to perception [Empedocles, by Theophrastus]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / g. Controlling emotions

1651	Plato wanted to somehow control and purify the passions [Vlastos on Plato]

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Plato saw emotions and appetites as wild horses, in need of taming [Plato, by Goldie]