Assignment 5 Relate Democritus’ ethics and his physics. How can he be concerned with right and wrong behavior when there are only atoms in the void? Compare his ethics to Parmenides’ Way of Opinion. ! Democritus was an atomist‚ and atomists wanted to explain the world without reasoning. They wanted to figure out the purpose‚ the prime mover and the final cause‚ which by todays standards is the more scientific approach to figuring out the universe. Questions should be answered with a mechanistic
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Democritus was a natural philosopher but also a mathematician. Democritus was a Greek‚ with many talents who traveled the east to acquire knowledge. Little is known about his life because records were not kept. all we know are some major discoveries that were recovered. Demoritus was born in Abdera‚ Thrace about 460B.C. and died about 370 B.C. He was schooled at Pythagorean but traveled to Athens to visit Anaxagoras‚ a great mathematician that wanted nothing with Democritus. His father was from
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Atomism: Democritus and Epicurus Philosophy 116 October 17‚ 1996 In the Atomists‚ we see pluralism taken as far as it could possibly go. We see Democritus and Epicurus divide all the world‚ as well as the universe‚ into two categories; atoms and empty space. Everything else is merely thought to exist. The atoms are eternal‚ infinite in size and number and they are moving through the empty space. There is no motion without empty space. Both Democritus and Epicurus agreed
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Democritus was the first scientist to create a model of the atom as well as the first to discover that all matter is made up of indivisible particles called atoms. His belief in atoms was that atoms were small‚ hard particles that were all made of the same material but were different shapes and sizes. Furthermore he believed that atoms were infinite in shape‚ in number‚ always moving and capable if joining together. Unlike Democritus’s belief‚ Aristotle’s belief about the atom were completely different
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namely Parmenides‚ argues that the void does not exist. This is the opinion of the Monist philosophers. The other group is the atomists who argue this thesis and believe there is a void. This group is primarily represented by the philosophers‚ Democritus and Leucippus. Parmenides argues against the existence of the void. The plenum fragment states his opinion quite clearly: "Nor is it divisible‚ since it is all alike; nor is there more here and less there‚ which would prevent it from holding
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THE WORLD OF IDEAS Empedocles and Democritus - believes that although in the natural world everything ‘flows’‚ there must be ‘something’ that never changes (the ‘four roots [Empedocles] or the ‘atoms’ [Democritus]) Plato - Believed that everything tangible in nature ‘flows’. - That there are no ‘substance’ that do not dissolve. - Said that‚ “Everything that belongs to the ‘material world’ is made of a material that time can erode‚ but everything is made after a timeless
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Democritus was a philosopher born at Abdera in Thrace around 460 BC; he lived to be very old but died at an unknown date. He was a student of Leucippus‚ and co-originator of the belief that all matter is made up of various imperishable indivisible elements which he called atoms. It is virtually impossible to tell which of these ideas were unique to Democritus‚ and which are attributable to Leucippus. Democritus is also the first philosopher we know to realize that what we perceive as the Milky Way
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Democritus was born in 460 BCE (estimated) in Abdera‚ Thrace. Democritus also known as the “Laughing Philosopher”. His theory was the matter could not be divided into smaller and smaller pieces forever‚ eventually the smallest possible piece would be obtained‚ and the piece would be invisible. He named the small piece of matter “atomos” meaning “not to be cut”. But as the time continued Aristotle‚ another Greek philosopher‚ thought that the atomic theory was worthless and then dismissed it. He on
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Pythagoras is a Greek philosopher commonly well known as mathematician scientist. He was Greek philosopher before Socratic‚ he is often referred as a great mathematician‚ mystic‚ and scientist. He also was the founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Pythagoras theory declared that is the basic principle of life is the numbers and adding numbers. Anaxagoras also is a Greek philosopher was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens. Anaxagoras’ innovative theory
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founders of the idea of atoms was called Democritus‚ which was in 430 BC. He argued that there were an infinite number of different types of atoms. They were all different shape however they were made from the same stuff. He describes atoms as indivisible particles and also explained certain natural occurrences such as the existence of elements. Atomos (in ancient Greek) means “that which cannot be further broken down into smaller pieces” This was Democritus idea of atoms Then came along Aristotle
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