Object's details: Life, Birth and Death in Democritus. Atomistic Reflections Between Physics and Ethics

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Title:
Life, Birth and Death in Democritus. Atomistic Reflections Between Physics and Ethics
Creator:
Peixoto, Miriam Campolina Diniz
Description:
The subject of life, birth and death constitutes one of the main topics in Democritus’ reflection on human questions. He seeks to understand what men think about the processes of birth and death and how they, accordingly, determine their behavior and attitudes. His reflections comprise a wide range of perspectives and aspects that include examining human behaviour and investigating how it reveals a certain temperament or inclination, inquiring about the nature of these processes and extending the analyses of the processes of birth and death to whole beings through the couple generation-corruption. In the present paper, I intend to examine the main theses and arguments which appear in the testimonies and fragments through which Democritus’ thought was transmitted from antiquity. Furthermore, I will also discuss the hypotheses that for Democritus the most important opposition was not life-death, but rather birth-death and that, at the same time, his idea of nature and life comprises both processes in the perspective of atomistic philosophy. I shall show that corruption has to be considered in two different ways, that is, in the context of physical processes that keep the kosmos in its persistence and in the context of the existence of natural beings, both living and lifeless.
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free access
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Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Peitho. Examina Antiqua
Date:
2017.10.24
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
Articles;
Artykuł naukowy
Language:
English;
eng
Source:
Peitho. Examina Antiqua; Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017); 141-154;
Peitho. Examina Antiqua; Tom 8 Nr 1 (2017); 141-154;
2082-7539
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/12219/12057
Subject:
Democritus;
life;
birth;
death;
generation;
corruption
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/12219
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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