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Empedocles: The Extant Fragments
by Empedocles
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Hardback. New. One of the most important Presocratic philosophers was the Sicilian Empedocles. He presented his work in the form of two hexameter poems, of which about 450 lines are extant, revealing a formidable range of interests, acute observation, and a firm grasp of fundamental issues in the study of man and nature.<br />Empedoclesâ theory of four elements was crucial to later developments in science and medicine. He showed how forces of attraction and repulsion acted on the elements within a framework of cyclical time and limited space, and initiated or advanced major discoveries in astronomy, biology, and physiology. More sophisticated concepts of divinity, personality, and mortality replaced traditional mythology, and these concepts were founded on the conviction that the individual has control over his own character and intellectual growth.<br />The introduction discusses Empedoclesâ life and interests, the content of the <i>Physics </i>and <i>Katharmoi</i>, and the relation of the two poems to each other. A new Greek text with apparatus is followed by translation, commentary, and detailed concordance, to give a comprehensive edition of this key figure in the history of ideas.<br />âWith its careful and judicious editing of the fragments and its many fresh insights into Empedoclesâ thought, this work will be indispensable to students of Presocratic philosophy.ââAlexander P.D. Mourelatos
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- Empedocles: The Extant Fragments
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- Empedocles
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- Hardback
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300024754
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- 9780300024753
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- Yale University Press
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- New Haven
- This edition first published
- 1981-09
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