Empedocles : (c.490-430 BC), Greek philosopher, statesman, poet, & physiologist.
... world and of human life and destiny. Page 221 Heraclitus, differing in this, as Mr. Ranade reminds us, from Anaximander who like our Mayavadins denied true reality to the Many and from Empedocles who thought the All to be alternately one and many, believed unity and multiplicity to be both of them real and coexistent. Existence is then eternally one and eternally many,—even as Ramanuja and ...
... for the fear." * Page 81 "What does your correspondent mean by 'philosophy' in a poem? Of course if one sets out to write a metaphysical argument in verse like the Greek Empedocles or the Roman Lucretius it is a risky business and is likely to land you into prosaic poetry which is a less pardonable mixture than poetic prose. Even when philosophising in a less perilous way ...
... sun to be formed out of fire alone have strayed most widely from reason. To claim like Heraclitus that no real thing except fire exists appears to be sheer dotage. The pluralistic theories of Empedocles and others are also equally wrong. The four elements—earth, water, air and fire without void—cannot account for motion and do not provide a satisfactory explanation of the vast variety of objects ...
... flame. The kindliness of love. 7 Thus Daemon, the divine spirit, descended into the world and brought about its transformation. That is Savitri's argument too. But the experience of Empedocles remains only a romantic idea, an object merely of cordial passion. Neither did he get a convincing vision of it nor did he perceive its scientific basis. Sri Aurobindo's experience of the divine ...
... and Table of the Gods: At the top of the human scale are the prophets, the minstrels and the physicians; their next step upward is to the divine, sharing the hearth and the table of the gods.—Empedocles. Body-Mind: tanū-manas . Page 22 Canto Twenty-One Into luminous emptiness he entered And even the world's yearning which he carried In his high-intended Odyssey disappeared ...
... Anatole France is very well done. What do they mean by "philosophy" in a poem? Of course if one sets out to write a metaphysical argument or treatise Page 125 in verse like the Greek Empedocles 1 or the Roman Lucretius 2 it is a risky business and is likely to land you into prosaic poetry which is a less pardonable mixture than poetic prose' And also one has to be very careful, when ...
... justification for the fear." * "What does your correspondent mean by #'philosophy' in a poem? Of course if one sets out to write a metaphysical argument in verse like the Greek Empedocles or the Roman Lucretius it is a risky business and is likely to land you into prosaic poetry which is a less pardonable mixture than poetic prose. Even when philosophising in a less perilous way, ...
... sentence was written in the top margin of the manuscript page. Its place of insertion was not marked: One would sometimes almost think that this upheaval of thought anticipated at once Plato & Empedocles, Luther, Erasmus and Melanchthon, Kant, Hegel & Berkeley, Hume, Haeckel & Huxley—that we have at one fell blast Graeco-Roman philosophy, Protestant Reformation & modern rationalistic tendency anticipated ...
... eternally one in the Being, God, eternally many by His nature or conscious-energy in the souls whom He becomes or who exist in her. In Greece also Anaximander denied the multiple reality of the Becoming. Empedocles affirmed that the All is eternally one and many; all is one which becomes many and then again goes back to oneness. But Heraclitus will not so cut the knot of the riddle. "No," he says in effect ...
... 14 June 1932 Poetry and Philosophy What does your correspondent mean by "philosophy" in a poem? Of course if one sets out to write a metaphysical argument or treatise in verse like the Greek Empedocles or the Roman Lucretius, it is a risky business and is likely to land you into prosaic poetry which is a less pardonable mixture than poetic prose! Even when philosophising in a less perilous way ...
... the main, a dualistic antithesis between body and soul, matter and spirit. Thus in Philolaus' teaching, the human body was regarded as a house of detention wherein the soul expiates its guilt. Empedocles likewise accepts the doctrine of the soul's fall from its original divine condition into the corporeal state and shares the view that the human body is the disparate integument of the soul. ...
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