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Ideas of Empedocles, by Text
[Greek, c.495 - 435 BCE, Born and lived at Acragas, in southern Sicily. A doctor, and public 'sage'.]
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p.17
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552
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Empedocles said good and evil were the basic principles [Aristotle]
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p.151
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1719
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In Empedocles' theory God is ignorant because, unlike humans, he doesn't know one of the elements (strife) [Aristotle]
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p.165
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2680
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Empedocles said that there are four material elements, and two further creative elements [Aristotle]
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p.185
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5112
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Empedocles says things are at rest, unless love unites them, or hatred splits them [Aristotle]
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p.205
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6002
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Empedocles says bone is water, fire and earth in ratio 2:4:2 [Inwood]
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p.358
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21823
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The principle of 'Friendship' in Empedocles is the One, and is bodiless [Plotinus]
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p.389
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22765
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Wisdom and thought are shared by all things
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p.471
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13209
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There is no coming-to-be of anything, but only mixing and separating [Aristotle]
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p.471
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13207
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Fire, Water, Air and Earth are elements, being simple as well as homoeomerous [Aristotle]
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p.499
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13218
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The elements combine in coming-to-be, but how do the elements themselves come-to-be? [Aristotle]
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p.519
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13225
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Love and Strife only explain movement if their effects are distinctive [Aristotle]
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61
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p.50
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5090
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Maybe bodies are designed by accident, and the creatures that don't work are destroyed [Aristotle]
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A86
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p.157
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1524
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For Empedocles thinking is almost identical to perception [Theophrastus]
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B008
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p.52
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457
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Substance is not created or destroyed in mortals, but there is only mixing and exchange
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B008
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p.119
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589
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'Nature' is just a word invented by people
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B012
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p.52
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458
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Nothing could come out of nothing, and existence could never completely cease
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B017
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p.53
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459
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All change is unity through love or division through hate
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B017
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p.54
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460
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If the one Being ever diminishes it would no longer exist, and what could ever increase it?
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B028
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p.56
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461
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God is a pure, solitary, and eternal sphere
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B088
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p.61
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462
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One vision is produced by both eyes
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B132
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p.155
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1522
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It is wretched not to want to think clearly about the gods
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B134
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p.67
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466
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God is pure mind permeating the universe
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