Parmenides and after: Unity and Plurality

Curd, Patricia

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“…''Love pulls apart likes and brings together unlikes, Strife breaks apart mixtures of unlikes and pulls together likes.'' 8 His work discloses his interest in body organs and their functions. Both living organism and inanimate things are made of roots.…”

Section: Four Elements Under the Rule Of Love And Strife Mixed By Chamentioning

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“…Presumably, the heat and brightness of fire is responsible for both of these properties. 8 Fire, in fact, was considered a hardening agent, which could cause stone formation from heated water.…”

Section: The Nature Of Bonementioning

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“…In the latter it differs, he points out, from the order of the main masses of the world, which are already the work of Strife and forecast the order they will assume when entirely separated.'' 8 Fragment 75: ''Of [the animals] those that are of dense composition on the outside and rare within, having received this flabbiness under the hand of Cypris.'' 9 Fragment 76: ''This is [found] in the hard-backed shells of the sew-dwellers, especially sea-snails and stoneskinned turtles.…”

Section: The Mathematical Ratio (Logos)mentioning

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Nowadays, there is a renewed interest in bone changes in experimental and clinical nephrology. However, the need for understanding the peculiarity of bone can be traced back to the 5th century BC, when Empedocles of Acragas put forward a theory of a world made of air, water, fire, and earth governed by love and hate. By observing the various body tissues, he strove to demonstrate that they consisted of 4 elements assembled with different mathematical ratios (logos). Blood is considered the most perfect tissue, because the ratio between elements is one. Bone is a very unusual tissue because it is made of 2 parts of earth, 2 parts of water, and 4 parts of fire. This kind of reasoning could be considered the first cry in the birth of quantitative chemistry.

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Section: The Nature Of Bonementioning

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The Problem of Language and Reality in the Xici and Plato’s Cratylus

Gustavsson

2021

Chinese Culture

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De lakrasisprésocratique à lakrasisstoïcienne : l’émergence d’un modèle organique de l’individualité

Bourbon

2020

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This paper focuses on the materialistic account of the blending and the way it shapes an original organism model. I aim to shed light on the threads of connections we can gather between the Presocratic and the Stoic views on the physical krasis of the body. The Stoics share with Parmenides and Empedocles the idea of a single material cosmic continuum in which thought and perception depend on the various blendings of the physical constituents of the body. Both of these naturalistic traditions are committed to the view that substance is continuous and undergoes constant and qualitative change. My point is to underline how this view of a sympathetic cosmos presupposes a model of the individuality that is radically open. Thus, by taking off the notion of the krasis, the Stoics take off a problem – namely, that of the organism – that is first fleshed out by the Presocratics – Parmenides and Empedocles in particular – philosophers. In this respect, the Stoic view of relational identity indebts to the Presocratic account, beyond and against the Aristotelian one.

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Parmenides and after: Unity and Plurality

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Where philosophy meets clinical science

The Problem of Language and Reality in the Xici and Plato’s Cratylus

De lakrasisprésocratique à lakrasisstoïcienne : l’émergence d’un modèle organique de l’individualité

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