Empedocles

[ em-ped-uh-kleez ]

noun

1. c490–c430 b.c., Greek philosopher and statesman.

Empedocles

/ ɛmˈpɛdəˌkliːz /

noun

1. Empedocles?490 bc430 bcMGreekPHILOSOPHY: philosopherSCIENCE: scientist ?490–430 bc , Greek philosopher and scientist, who held that the world is composed of four elements, air, fire, earth, and water, which are governed by the opposing forces of love and discord

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Empedocles, of Agrigentum, well known in the history of philosophy, was perhaps the most famous of these physicians.

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In Empedocles' theory of evolution, the vegetable world preceded the animal.

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Empedocles, one of the early disciples of Pythagoras, said that he inhabited a female body in his preceding existence.

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Empedocles and the panpsychists spoke in the same sense of sensation and effort in all things.

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He had done the same with Empedocles on Etna, and other Poems in 1852.

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