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Empedocles - An Interpretation (Paperback): Simon Trepanier Empedocles - An Interpretation (Paperback)
Simon Trepanier
R1,702 Discovery Miles 17 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Offering a complete reinterpretation of Empedocles, Simon Trepanier reconstructs a single original philosophical poem, against previous interpretations which allocate our extant fragments on two works: a religious poem, 'The Purifications', and a scientific poem, 'On Nature'.

Empedocles - An Interpretation (Hardcover): Simon Trepanier Empedocles - An Interpretation (Hardcover)
Simon Trepanier
R4,225 Discovery Miles 42 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


This work offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles - one of the founding figures of Western philosophy - since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light. Simon Trépanier reconstructs a single original philosophical poem, against previous interpretations which allocate our extant fragments on two works: a religious poem, The Purifications, and a scientific poem, On Nature.
The resulting single work is best understood as a philosophical masterpiece whose function was to persuade the hearer of a radically new conception of the universe, one that combined a belief in reincarnation and afterlife judgment with a rigorous and uncompromising physics, both conceived in response to puzzles about thought and Being. While remaining sensitive to philological detail and the full range of available evidence, this study presents a revolutionary approach to a challenging author. The unity of his thought, now discernible for the first time, allows Empedocles a more coherent

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