Pesquisa
Review of Vojtěch Hladký. Rejoicing Sphairos, Wandering Daimon, and Other Living Beings. Studies on Empedocles’ Philosophy of Life (and Death). Baden-Baden: Karl-Alber Verlag, 2025, 245pp., ISBN 9783495992920
Hladký, Vojtěch. Rejoicing Sphairos, Wandering Daimon, and Other Living Beings. Studies on Empedocles’ Philosophy of Life (and Death). Baden-Baden: Karl-Alber Verlag, 2025. 245pp. 9783495992920
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The four elements: living beings or inert matter? Plato’s Timaeus against Empedocles’s On nature
Abstract. In this paper, I argue that Empedocles’s peculiar expression according to which the roots – living entities, each endowed with thought and desires – “are themselves” forces the reader to think of them not solely as the principles of genera…
Equivocal and Deceitful Didactic Poetry. What Style Matters Can Say About Empedocles’ Audience(s)
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