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Approaching Empedocles through PWL practices

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
To approach the poem-fragments of Empedocles as a discourse emerging from the drama of living, is to allow their performatively theorized snapshots to return from mere stills to moving images of practice in modulated stages of training.
Lucio Angelo Privitello
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The Editing of the Erotic in Hölderlin’s Empedocles Project

Humanities
While the development of the Empedocles figure in the various versions of Hölderlin’s unfinished tragedy has long been the subject of scholarship, the shifts in his relationships to the women around him have largely gone unnoticed.
Priscilla Ann Hayden-Roy
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The great Greek “charlatan”: Empedocles

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2022
This article revises the views about Empedocles of Akragas. Even contemporaries of the thinker were confronted with the question of whether he was a great sage or a charlatan.
Rudin, Oleg V.
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Theophrastus Transmitting Empedocles

Clotho
Theophrastus speaks of the kinship between living beings in connection with Empedocles in several of his works. In De Causis Plantarum 1.7.1, 1.13.2, and 1.21.5, he quotes and assesses Empedocles’ observations concerning plants and animals and their ...
Sandra Šćepanović
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Empedocles on Ensouled Beings

Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2023
The paper analyses fragmentarily preserved views of Empedocles, that, in the author’s opinion, represent the antecedents of deviations from the anthropocentric vision of the world and anticipate the majority of later attempts at scientific ...
Željko Kaluđerović
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Empedocles on the Inheritance of Parental Traits by Offspring [PDF]

Philologia Classica, 2022
The paper deals with the embryological teaching of Empedocles, the ancient Greek philosopher from Acragas, who lived in the 5th century BC. The article is focused on the mechanisms by which children inherit their parents’ features in the doctrine of ...
Pimenova, Aleksandra A.
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Equivocal and Deceitful Didactic Poetry. What Style matters can say about Empedocles' audience

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental
Since antiquity, Empedocles has been considered as an example of both successful and unsuccessful communication. Aristotle credits him with vividness of images, but blames him for failure of clarity, and eventually compares his obscureness to that of ...
Ilaria Andolfi
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On the nature of ceramics technology: from Empedocles to Dawkins

Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 55-71, February 2025.
Abstract This contribution discusses salient aspects of the development of ceramics technology from its invention to the present, and the role ceramics have played during the cultural development and technological progress of ancient and modern societies. The conjecture is being advanced that the transformation of ceramic production modes from holistic,
Robert B. Heimann
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Simplicius on Empedocles: A note on his commentary in Phys. 157.25–161.20

Шаги
The present study attempts to show what influence a commentary can have on the formation of ideas about a preceding philosophical tradition. A case in point is Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s “Physics” and on fragments of Empedocles’ poem.
A. S. Afonasina
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Empedocles: Divinization and Suicide [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2007
In his article on Empedocles Sergej Anavesov of Tomsk State University presents a part of his bigger study in the philosophy of suicide, and shows that Empedocles’ famous deed can be understood as an act of “metaphysical revolt”, a mysterious ...
Avanesov, Sergey
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