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Empedocles

submitted by boekanier to Philosophy 8 monthsAug 27, 2024 01:36:12 ago (+2/-1)     (Philosophy)

EMPEDOCLES

Born in 492 BC in Agrigentum, Empedocles became known as a physician, physicist, philosopher and poet. As a scientist, he was well-informed about the views of many predecessors, but he himself is said to have discovered the centrifugal force through experiments. As a physicist, he shared with the philosophers of Ionia a great curiosity about the origin of the cosmos. He assumed that the basic substances - fire, water, air and earth - had first clumped together by chance and disorder, but that over time only those combinations had remained that had a good composition. A 'theory of evolution' avant la lettre, as it were. And he saw the entire process of changes in nature not influenced by a world of gods, but by two forces: love and struggle. As a poet, Empedocles was highly respected. He was particularly fascinated by the theories of Heraclitus on the theme of continuous 'becoming'. With his creative mind, for example, he describes death as 'disappearing into the lonely and blind night'.


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[ - ] boekanier [op] 1 point 8 monthsAug 27, 2024 01:38:11 ago (+1/-0)

'love and struggle', or in modern terms: attraction - repulsion

[ - ] ImplicationOverReason 0 points 8 monthsAug 27, 2024 03:59:21 ago (+0/-0)

a) Struggle implies needing to resist wanted (love) and not wanted (hate) temptations.

b) Temptations attract consent; resistance reacts (re) to pulse (puls) of action (ion) aka reacts (matter) to pulse (momentum) of action (motion).

Pulse (inception towards death) generates reacting beats (life)

[ - ] Cantaloupe 0 points 8 monthsAug 27, 2024 01:47:42 ago (+0/-0)

Snuggle struggles - some women call it something else

[ - ] ImplicationOverReason -1 points 8 monthsAug 27, 2024 03:53:46 ago (+0/-1)

centrifugal force

Motion (inception towards death) forces matter (life) into center...matter choosing to ignore motion implies fugal/fugere - "to flee".

fire, water, air and earth - had first clumped together

Fire; water; air and earth implies partials within whole aka set apart from one another, before they can be clumped together.

Born in 492 BC in Agrigentum, Empedocles became known as a physician, physicist, philosopher and poet

Aka name; date; location; status...CLUMPED TOGETHER by suggestion of few tempting consent by many. That ain't natural but artificial.

discover

Aka covering division...a suggested inversion of nature revealing whole (all perceivable) to partials (ones perception).

together by chance and disorder

a) Chance (the effect of an unknown cause) implies the suggested inversion of being effect (choice) within known cause (balance)...cause only within balance can there be choice.

b) Disorder implies division of order aka natural order (inception towards death) separating into chaos (life). Few suggest disorder to tempt many to want to re-establish order, thereby destroying themselves.

a good composition

Good implies versus bad aka a conflict of reason...how is conflict a good composition? How does a compost heap work? By the enacting process of dying generating living reactions. Notice that those compost heaps need to be turned and spread apart to nourish other life...

theory of evolution

ION (action) doesn't VOLUT (turn)...it directs (inception towards death) reactions (life). Few suggest theorism aka orated the-ism to tempt consenting many to turn against each other within conflicts of reason.

he saw the entire process of changes

A partial (life) processed within whole (inception towards death) cannot perceive the entirety, while being positioned at center thereof. Life cannot perceive its own inception or death since life lives in-between.

The change from whole into partial implies differentiation, which enables each ones perception within all perceivable. One can only sense during differentiation.

nature not influenced

How does nature/natura/natus - "birth; born" not imply coming to be (life) within fluid (inception towards death)? Where does an OFF-SPRING spring off from?

Two forces

Reaction aka response to action implies action...action generating reactions aren't TWO forces, but one cause (action) forcing each one effect (reaction).

There can be only one Force...FORwards aka motion/action. Backwards; sideways; upwards; downwards are reactions within forward motion.

Another example...male and female. Two? FE(minine) MALE, WO(mb)MAN, S(plit)HE. One force!

Two doesn't exist in nature...it's based on ONEs consent to another ONEs suggestion, which implies DUAL-ism aka one ignoring self by counting another one.

was highly respected

https://img.gvid.tv/i/4CjeuRgV.png This is what happens if many ignore respect/re-specio aka respond to view for watching what others are showing.

Ones perception within all perceivable implies respect; while ones consent to any suggestion by another establishes dis-respect aka division of respect.

He was particularly

A particular suggesting "good COMPOSITION"...that's how few remain apart while tempting many together aka that's how a master accumulates slaves.

continuous 'becoming'.

Only within continuous motion (inception towards death) can temporal matter (life) come into being...suggested "becoming" inverts that.

With his creative mind

Did he create his mind out of nothing? Did he create thoughts within his mind out of nothing? How is it his mind if perceivable input forces itself through each ones perceiving mind?

disappearing into the lonely and blind night

a) Suggested creationism tempts one to believe in nothing, while ignoring that only within everything perceivable can each ones perception appear (inception) and disappear (death). This ignorance implies ones de-nial (Latin nihilo; nothing) of everything perceivable, and few suggest nihil-ism to tempt many into ignorance by willing consent.

b) Lonely aka alone implies all(in)one aka one (perception) within all (perceivable). Few suggest lonelyness to tempt many to want to be together, which implies towards getting, which tempts one to ignore being (life) moved from inception TOWARDS death...that's what one GETS when a partial chooses to be together.

The foundation for this...wanting to hold onto, while struggling with needing to let go. If a mother holds a child it implies an embrace, yet simultaneously the need to let go transforms the embrace into smothering.

c) Only during perceivable can ones perception have sight or be blinded. Being blind still implies appearance of being.

he describes death as..."blind night"

Over two and a half millennia later...few are still tricking many to ignore "blinded by the light...cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night"

tl;dr...Empedocles aka docking (doc) production (empedo/empire/pere). Nature produces perceivable, each ones perception within can be docked with suggested...if consented to.