[PHIL 1070] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (16 pages long!)
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Empedocles elements (roots) contrary forces such as love and strife are at play as an essential part of empedocles" philosophy. 4 elements philosophers throughout the ages have identi ed the four classical elements earth. Re wind/air water this is a systematic way of looking at physics a method through which one can look at how the world around them is arranged and devised. Re for him is a force it is the source which explains a great many changes in the observable world. Re takes things apart, moves things, destroys things it is one of the 4 classical elements supported by philosophers throughout the ages. Introduction to anaxagoras the man it took him one day to copy down his book this was a tremendous feat by an equally tremendously in uential philosopher it cost him 2 drachmas to publish. Anaxagoras was an ionic pre-socratic philosopher he was the rst of the pre-socratic philosophers.
