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🟡 Only Atoms & Space, Democritus, c. 460–370 B.C.E.
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@gutenberg_org Yes, #HappyBirthday 🎂 to #physicist #MaxPlanck , who in 1900 was the founder of the #QuantumTheory - of #energy.
But a century earlier, using empirical data from 18th century #chemistry , #chemist #JohnDalton correctly postulated what could be called the #QuantumTheory of mass when he resurrected and modernized the #AncientGreek #philosophy of #Atomism attributed to #Democritus. #Histodons
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@pareidolia I have yet to go to #Thrace (#BucketList destination). The #StreetArt by #iNO featuring #Democritus , to my #ChemicalEye 👁️ the most visionary of #philosophers in #AncientGreece , is located in Piareus, the main port to #Athens. https://streetartnews.net/2015/09/we-have-power-new-mural-by-ino-in.html
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@pareidolia Thrace is also the origin of #atomic theory 2,500 years ago, so should be near and dear to the dancing heart of all chemists!
#Histodons #Science #ValentinesDay #AncientGreece #Democritus -
Things will inevitably go wrong, people will do wrong, motivated in bad ways. Should you cry over it? Or should you laugh about them? Or is there a better response? Here's a bit about Seneca's advice to us
https://medium.com/practical-rationality/senecas-insights-of-crying-laughing-or-accepting-7a0bdfba00e1
#Seneca #Advice #Stoicism #Heraclitus #Democritus -
“In the weightiest matters we must go to school to the #animals, and learn spinning and weaving from the spider, building from the swallow, singing from the birds, — from the swan and the nightingale, imitating their art.”
- #Democritus of Abdera - The Symmetry of Life
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#Democritus (Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning chosen of the people) claimed that everything starts from atoms, in a bottom-up #causation.
#Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία, dēmokratiā, from dēmos ‘people’ and kratos ‘rule’) can be described as #emergent top-down #control mechanisms based on the free association and decision of autonomous individuals.
All #causation is bottom-up or from the inside-out. There is no such thing as top-down causation imposed from the outside. There is only an emergent (internal) level of constraints and other control mechanisms generated by the interaction of individuals fulfilling a common need or objective.
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Still, it's good to know that #Bacon praised #Democritus for denying #teleology; if both #Democritus and #Lucretius deny it, then it seems like #Epicurus probably did too? @philosophy
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I really want to talk to someone about #Spinoza's anti-teleological view, which #Schopenhauer tries to blame on a wish to avoid "speculative theology."
I think it's the opposite; Spinoza's theological view comes as a result of his seeing through the anthropomorphic illusion of teleology in nature. In this way, his insight is similar to the #Buddha #Nietzsche #Darwin and #Taoism.
Possibly also #Epicurus #Democritus et al; I have yet to read enough #Lucretius to say for sure.