Thanks to Prof. Emeritus James Mancuso
[RAA NOTE: Similarly, Keep in mind that Archimides was born, lived, and died in Syracuse, Sicily, and never set foot in Greece, yet is claimed to be Greek] If you have taken a course in philosophy you will have heard of the
"Greek"
Scholars recognize Empedocles as the person that first forcefully promoted the idea that everything in the world is made up of certain basic elements. In that way, his theories are the beginnings of the kind of theory of atoms that has guided so much of modern successful science. He is known as a "Greek" philosopher -- but he lived and worked very far from the famous cities of Greece and Asia Minor. He worked at Akragas -- a settlement founded by Greeks on the south side of Sicily. Akragas became the city we know as Agrigento. So, do we have any way of knowing whether or not Empedocles was "Greek?"
So, why don't we say that Empedocles was an "Ancient Sicilian" philosopher????? [RAA NOTE:Particularly, when John Burnet states that Aristotle said
that Empedocles was the inventor of Rhetoric; and Galen made him the founder
of the Italian school of Medicine..( Exploring Plato's Dialogues)]
>From the World of Science: EMPEDOCELES OF ACRAGAS On 16 November 1945 it was announced that two new elements, curium and
He formulated the theory of elements... Unlike his predecessors, Empedocles
claims that there are four elements in the universe; air, fire, earth,
and water....and
Empedocles said that in addition to the four passive elements, there operate in the world two active principles: philotes (love) and neikos (hate/strife). These principles come into play between the elements and cause transformations. There is an interesting similarity between this speculation and the worldview of current physics. According to our modern theories, the variety of natural phenomena arises because of the fundamental interactions (attraction, repulsion) between the elementary particles (roots). The greatest achievement of Empedocles was his observational discovery
Empedocles was doing one of the earliest experimenters in physics, for
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