Demokryt
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Umiejscowienie
Wraz z Leukippem twórca atomizmu: istnieją tylko atomy i próżnia.
Kluczowe idee
- Atomizm
- Euthymia (pogoda ducha)
Wpływ
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Parmenides
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With Leucippus, Democritus granted the Eleatics that nothing comes from nothing but posited void and indivisible atoms, so that plurality and motion become possible again. Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption I.8; SEP “Ancient Atomism”
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Parmenides › ok. 515–450 p.n.e.
Zenon z Elei
pod wpływem
Democritus answered Eleatic arguments like Zeno’s, that infinite division dissolves bodies into nothing, by positing indivisible atoms (Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption I.2). Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption I.2; SEP “Ancient Atomism”; SEP “Zeno of Elea”
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Zenon z Elei › ok. 490–430 p.n.e.
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Arystoteles
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Aristotle treated Democritus as the earlier physicist who argued most from nature, discussing his atoms and void at length while rejecting both (On Generation and Corruption I.2, I.8). Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption I.2, I.8; Physics IV.6–9; SEP “Democritus”
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Arystoteles › 384–322 p.n.e.
Pyrron z Elidy
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Pyrrho studied with the Democritean Anaxarchus, and Philo of Athens said he cited Democritus most; Democritus’ distrust of the senses is a likely source of his scepticism. Diogenes Laertius IX.61, IX.67; Democritus, DK 68 B9, B117; SEP “Pyrrho”
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Pyrron z Elidy › ok. 360–270 p.n.e.
Epikur
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Epicurus took over Democritus’ atoms and void, giving atoms weight and, by later reports, a swerve, and grounded on them an ethics free of fear of death. Epicurus, Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoeceus; Lucretius II.216–293; Cicero, De finibus I.17–21; SEP “Epicurus”
Epikur › 341–270 p.n.e.
Lukrecjusz
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Through Epicurus Lucretius took up Democritus’ atoms and void, naming him with respect while rejecting his view that soul and body atoms alternate (De rerum natura III.370–395). Lucretius, De rerum natura III.370–395, V.621–636; SEP “Lucretius”
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Lukrecjusz › ok. 99–55 p.n.e.
Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
wpływ na sporne
Al-Razi taught that bodies consist of indivisible atoms and void; whether his atomism derives from Democritus through Greek sources or from other traditions is disputed. S. Pines, Beiträge zur islamischen Atomenlehre (1936); P. Adamson, Al-Razi (2021)
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Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi › ok. 865–925
Francis Bacon
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Bacon praised the school of Democritus for dissecting nature rather than abstracting from it (New Organon, 1620) and discussed his atoms in On Principles and Origins (c. 1612). F. Bacon, Novum Organum (1620); De principiis atque originibus (c. 1612); SEP “Francis Bacon”
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Francis Bacon › 1561–1626
Stanowisko
Democritus answered the Eleatic challenge with a bold model: reality consists of atoms – tiny, indivisible, unchangeable bodies – and the void in which they move. Atoms differ only in shape, arrangement and position; their collisions and combinations produce all things, including countless worlds. Colours, tastes and warmth exist only “by convention”; in truth there are only atoms and void. In ethics he praised cheerfulness (euthymia), a calm and well-balanced state of the soul. Through Epicurus and Lucretius, atomism survived antiquity and returned in the early modern science of Gassendi, Boyle and Newton.
Życie i kontekst
Democritus came from Abdera in Thrace and, according to tradition, travelled widely and lived to a great age. He developed atomic theory together with his teacher Leucippus. He was extremely prolific – ancient catalogues list some seventy works on ethics, physics, mathematics and music – but only fragments survive, many of them ethical maxims.
Główne dzieła
- The Little World-System (lost, c. 420 BCE)
- On Cheerfulness (lost, c. 420 BCE)
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