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  1. Scholars have unearthed previously unknown verses from Empedocles’s ancient Greek manuscript, offering deeper insights into his revolutionary ideas about nature, love, and the cosmos. A thrilling moment for philosophy and the history of ideas.

    Read more: thedebrief.org/missing-for-200

    @goodnews

    #Empedocles #AncientPhilosophy #LostTexts #GoodNews

  2. Scholars have unearthed previously unknown verses from Empedocles’s ancient Greek manuscript, offering deeper insights into his revolutionary ideas about nature, love, and the cosmos. A thrilling moment for philosophy and the history of ideas.

    Read more: thedebrief.org/missing-for-200

    @goodnews

    #Empedocles #AncientPhilosophy #LostTexts #GoodNews

  3. Scholars have unearthed previously unknown verses from Empedocles’s ancient Greek manuscript, offering deeper insights into his revolutionary ideas about nature, love, and the cosmos. A thrilling moment for philosophy and the history of ideas.

    Read more: thedebrief.org/missing-for-200

    @goodnews

    #Empedocles #AncientPhilosophy #LostTexts #GoodNews

  4. Scholars have unearthed previously unknown verses from Empedocles’s ancient Greek manuscript, offering deeper insights into his revolutionary ideas about nature, love, and the cosmos. A thrilling moment for philosophy and the history of ideas.

    Read more: thedebrief.org/missing-for-200

    @goodnews

    #Empedocles #AncientPhilosophy #LostTexts #GoodNews

  5. Scholars have unearthed previously unknown verses from Empedocles’s ancient Greek manuscript, offering deeper insights into his revolutionary ideas about nature, love, and the cosmos. A thrilling moment for philosophy and the history of ideas.

    Read more: thedebrief.org/missing-for-200

    @goodnews

    #Empedocles #AncientPhilosophy #LostTexts #GoodNews

  6. but the power that provides unification is foreign to the one who presides over the division and opposition of encosmic things [Ares]. So it is this cooperation of dissimilar causes that the myths have referred to as adultery." Proclus, Commentary on the Republic 141f. (2/2)

    I like this from Proclus as it works as a continuation of #Empedocles idea of the Cosmos sustained by Love/Strife

    #Proclus #Polytheism #Aphrodite #Ares #Hephaestus #Paganism #Myth #Neoplatonism #GreekMythology #Mythology