Empedocles | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-17

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00:01:12 1 Life
00:03:19 2 Works
00:04:52 2.1 iPurifications/i
00:06:19 2.2 iOn Nature/i
00:07:05 3 Philosophy
00:09:03 3.1 The four elements
00:10:29 3.2 Love and Strife
00:11:31 3.3 The sphere of Empedocles
00:12:32 3.4 Cosmogony
00:13:48 3.5 Perception and knowledge
00:15:21 3.6 Respiration
00:16:17 3.7 Reincarnation
00:17:03 4 Death and literary treatments
00:19:22 5 See also



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Empedocles (; Greek: Ἐμπεδοκλῆς [empedoklɛ̂ːs], Empedoklēs; c. 494 – c. 434 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements. He also proposed forces he called Love and Strife which would mix and separate the elements, respectively. These physical speculations were part of a history of the universe which also dealt with the origin and development of life.
Influenced by Pythagoras (died c. 495 BC) and the Pythagoreans, Empedocles challenged the practice of animal sacrifice and killing animals for food (so he may have been a vegetarian at some stage of his life). He developed a distinctive doctrine of reincarnation. He is generally considered the last Greek philosopher to have recorded his ideas in verse. Some of his work survives, more than is the case for any other pre-Socratic philosopher. Empedocles' death was mythologized by ancient writers, and has been the subject of a number of literary treatments.