Ideas from 'fragments/reports' by Empedocles [453 BCE], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Early Greek Phil V: Parmenides, Empedocles etc' by Parmenides (ed/tr Laks,A/Most,G) [Harvard Loeb 2016,978-0-674-99706-6]].
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
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Nothing could come out of nothing, and existence could never completely cease
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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Empedocles says things are at rest, unless love unites them, or hatred splits them [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
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There is no coming-to-be of anything, but only mixing and separating [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object
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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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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism
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462
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One vision is produced by both eyes
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 3. Panpsychism
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Wisdom and thought are shared by all things
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought
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For Empedocles thinking is almost identical to perception [Theophrastus]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / j. Evil
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552
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Empedocles said good and evil were the basic principles [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
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589
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'Nature' is just a word invented by people
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
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The principle of 'Friendship' in Empedocles is the One, and is bodiless [Plotinus]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
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Empedocles said that there are four material elements, and two further creative elements [Aristotle]
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Empedocles says bone is water, fire and earth in ratio 2:4:2 [Inwood]
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Fire, Water, Air and Earth are elements, being simple as well as homoeomerous [Aristotle]
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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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459
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All change is unity through love or division through hate
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Love and Strife only explain movement if their effects are distinctive [Aristotle]
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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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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
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Maybe bodies are designed by accident, and the creatures that don't work are destroyed [Aristotle]
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
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466
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God is pure mind permeating the universe
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461
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God is a pure, solitary, and eternal sphere
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions
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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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29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism
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It is wretched not to want to think clearly about the gods
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