The first philosophers of Greece : $b An edition and translation of the remaining fragments of the pre-Sokratic philosophers, together with a translation of the more important accounts of their opinions contained in the early epitomes of their worksFairbanks, Arthur
Philosophy
The first philosophers of Greece : $b An edition and translation of the remaining fragments of the pre-Sokratic philosophers, together with a translation of the more important accounts of their opinions contained in the early epitomes of their works
Fairbanks, Arthur
Philosophy, Ancient
ii. 4; 196 a 20. Empedokles says that the air is not always separated
upwards, but as it happens.
viii. 1; 250 b 27. Empedokles says that things are in motion part of the
time and again they are at rest; they are in motion when Love tends to
make one out of many, or Strife tends to make many out of one, and in the
intervening time they are at rest (Vv. 69-73).
viii. 1; 252 a 6. So it is necessary to consider this (motion) a first
principle, which it seems Empedokles means in saying that of necessity
Love and Strife control things and move them part of the time, and that
they are at rest during the intervening time.
_De Caelo_ 279 b 14. Some say that alternately at one time there is
coming into being, at another time there is perishing, and that this
always continues to be the case; so say Empedokles of Agrigentum and
Herakleitos of Ephesus.
ii. 1; 284 a 24. Neither can we assume that it is after this manner nor
that, getting a slower motion than its own downward momentum on account
of rotation, it still is preserved so long a time, as Empedokles says.
ii. 13; 295 a 15. But they seek the cause why it remains, and some say
after this manner, that its breadth or size is the cause; but others,
as Empedokles, that the movement of the heavens revolving in a circle
and moving more slowly, hinders the motion of the earth, like water in
vessels....
iii. 2; 301 a 14. It is not right to make genesis take place out of what
is separated and in motion. Wherefore Empedokles passes over genesis in
the case of Love; for he could not put the heaven together preparing it
out of parts that had been separated, and making the combination by means
of Love; for the order of the elements has been established out of parts
that had been separated, so that necessarily it arose out of what is one
and compounded.
iii. 2; 302 a 28. Empedokles says that fire and earth and associated
elements are the elements of bodies, and that all things are composed of
these.
iii. 6; 305 a 1. But if separation shall in some way be stopped, either
the body in which it is stopped will be indivisible, or being separable
it is one that will never be divided, as Empedokles seems to mean.
iv. 2; 309 a 19. Some who deny that a void exists, do not define
carefully light and heavy, as Anaxagoras and Empedokles.
_Gen. corr._ i. 1; 314 b 7. Wherefore Empedokles speaks after this
manner, saying that nothing comes into being, but there is only mixture
and separation of the mixed.
i. 1; 315 a 3. Empedokles seemed both to contradict things as they
appear, and to contradict himself. For at one time he says that no one of
the elements arises from another, but that all other things arise from
these; and at another time he brings all of nature together into one,
except Strife, and says that each thing arises from the one.
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