Democritus

Democritus
Democritus
Born	c. 460 BC; Abdera, Thrace
Dee'd	c. 370 BC (aged aroond 90)
Era	Pre-Socratic philosophie
Region	Western philosophie
Schuil	Pre-Socratic philosophie
Main interests	Metapheesics; Mathematics; Astronomy;
Notable ideas	Atomism; Aetiology (causality); The Milky Way (Via Lactea) as a concentration o distant starns;
	Influences Leucippus; Melissus o Samos; ;
	Influenced Epicurus; Pyrrho; Lucretius; Aristotle; Montaigne; Severino; Baruch Spinoza; George Santayana; Karl Marx; Friedrich Nietzsche; Michel Onfray; ;

Democritus (/dɪˈmɒkrɪtəs/; Greek: Δημόκριτος Dēmókritos, meanin "chosen o the fowk"; c. 460 – c. 370 BC) wis an influential Auncient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered the day for his formulation o an atomic theory o the universe.^[3]

Democritus wis born in Abdera, Thrace,^[4] aroond 460 BC, awtho thare are disgreements about the exact year. His exact contreibutions are difficult tae disentangle frae thae o his mentor Leucippus, as thay are eften mentioned thegither in texts. Thair speculation on atoms, taken frae Leucippus, beirs a passin an pairtial resemblance tae the 19t-century unnerstaundin o atomic structur that haes led some tae regaird Democritus as mair o a scientist nor ither Greek philosophers; houiver, thair ideas restit on verra different bases.^[5] Lairgely ignored in auncient Athens, Democritus is said tae hae been disliked sae muckle bi Plato that the latter wished aw o his beuks birned.^[6] He wis nivertheless weel kent tae his fellae northren-born philosopher Aristotle. Mony conseder Democritus tae be the "faither o modren science".^[7] Nane o his writins hae survived; anerly fragments are kent from his vast bouk o wark.^[8]

Notes

↑ The idea that atoms an void as the fundamental constituents o the warld (DK B125: "ἐτεῇ δὲ ἄτομα καὶ κενόν").

References

↑ DK 68 B118.
↑ DK 59 A80: Aristotle, Meteorologica 342b.
↑ Barnes (1987).
↑ Russell, pp. 64–65.
↑ Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield, The Architecture of Matter (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), 56.
↑ Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, ix. 40: "Aristoxenus in his Historical Notes affirms that Plato wished to burn all the writings of Democritus that he could collect".
↑ Pamela Gossin, Encyclopedia of Literature and Science, 2002.
↑ Democritus at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[1] The idea that atoms an void as the fundamental constituents o the warld (DK B125: "ἐτεῇ δὲ ἄτομα καὶ κενόν").

[2] DK 68 B118.

[3] DK 59 A80: Aristotle, Meteorologica 342b.

[Barnes87-4] Barnes (1987).

[Russell64–65-5] Russell, pp. 64–65.

[6] Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield, The Architecture of Matter (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), 56.

[7] Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, ix. 40: "Aristoxenus in his Historical Notes affirms that Plato wished to burn all the writings of Democritus that he could collect".

[8] Pamela Gossin, Encyclopedia of Literature and Science, 2002.

[plato.stanford.edu-9] Democritus at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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