Empedocles and the vulcano
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- Empedocles 494 - 434 BCwas a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements.
In this video I demonstrate his philosophy in a peculiar and different way. I hope you will enjoy it!
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It never ceases to astonish me how slow has been the progress of human thought and understanding. Thousands of years for the slightest perception of reality! Jumping into volcanoes ... Indeed 😃
Hi Timothy. I think there is a great wealth of ideas in the fragments from the presocratic philosophers. I really recommend reading the fragtments of their works that has been collected. Sometimes we have references of their works from other later philosophers like particular Aristotle and Plato. But if you read fragments. I highly recommend Heraclitus, Anaximander and Anaxagoras. Some have thought that the pre-Socratics were closer to philosopher-scientists than the peripatetic school, and the Big 3 (Socrates, Plato and Aristotle). But their philosophies/theories are shrouded in mystery and will make thonk with them. I believe that the dark ages sent us alot of years. More stuff happened in ancient times ;-)
@@Thedanishphilosopher I wholeheartedly agree with regards to the Presocratics thinkers. All too often, they have been kinda dismissed/overlooked or at least quickly passed by as some sort of immature/prenascent/embryonic precursors of modern scientific thought - and so are left by the wayside as being no longer relevant now that we have the so-called "the real thing" (also, when people refers to "science" - it is often the case that what they're really propagating is "scientism", or so it seems to me). However, I'm quite convinced that their approaches to reality and life in general have value in and of themselves, expecially, or not least, with regards to illustrating our existential life-world in the ways that it is actually unfolding, i.e. phenomenologically/experientally. A great (yet somewhat expensive) work that looks deeply into this question is Raymond Prier's "Archaic Logic - Symbol and Structure in Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles" (1976).
@@madshojmark Thank you Mads :-) For your insights and your book recommendation! Your feedback is always appreciated.
@@Thedanishphilosopher You're welcome, Kasper. Always a pleasure watching your videos :) Btw, I must say that I quite admire your persistence in producing them + the fact that you have been in this game for so long now. If I'm doing the math correctly, you must have started shooting and publishing videos when UA-cam was less than 10 years old - so that's some fearless pioneering right there!
@@madshojmark Your right! I was almost there from the beginning. I´ve been producing videos since 2012.