11 - All You Need is Love, and Five Other Things: Empedocles

Posted on 16 January 2011

In this episode, Peter discusses the Presocratic philosopher Empedocles and his principles: Love, Strife, and the four “roots,” or elements.

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Further Reading: 

P. Curd, “A New Empedocles? Implications of the Strasburg Fragments for Presocratic Philosophy” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (2001) 17, 27-50

D. O'Brien, Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle (Cambridge: 1969)

D. O'Brien, "Empedocles Revisited," Ancient Philosophy 15 (1995), 403–470

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empedocles/

http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/empedocles/