Empedocles
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Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, poet, and scientist best known for proposing the four classical elements—earth, air, fire, and water—as the fundamental constituents of reality.
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|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ancient Greek philosopher
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natural philosopher ⓘ poet ⓘ pre-Socratic philosopher ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Akragas
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Magna Graecia ⓘ
surface form:
Sicilian Greek culture
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| birthPlace |
Akragas
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Sicily ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| dateOfBirth | circa 494 BCE ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | circa 434 BCE ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Aristotle's writings
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Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers ⓘ
surface form:
Diogenes Laërtius' Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
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| era |
Classical Greek period
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pre-Socratic philosophy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek ⓘ |
| influenced |
Aristotle
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Lucretius ⓘ Plato ⓘ Renaissance natural philosophy ⓘ Stoicism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Heraclitus
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Parmenides ⓘ Pythagoras ⓘ |
| knownFor |
combining Eleatic and Heraclitean ideas
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formulating the doctrine of four roots (elements) ⓘ poetic presentation of philosophy ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Love and Strife as cosmic forces
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air as fundamental element ⓘ cosmic cycle of unity and separation ⓘ early theory of evolution by natural selection-like processes ⓘ earth as fundamental element ⓘ fire as fundamental element ⓘ reincarnation and transmigration of souls ⓘ theory of four classical elements ⓘ water as fundamental element ⓘ |
| occupation |
philosopher
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physician ⓘ poet ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
Pluralist school
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pre-Socratic philosophy ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Sicily ⓘ |
| religiousBelief | belief in metempsychosis ⓘ |
| work |
On Nature
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Purifications ⓘ |
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