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Published: 01.01.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Atomism, Democritus and Epicurus', 1.
  • Essays 'Atomism, Democritus and Epicurus', 2.
Extract

In the Atomists, we see pluralism taken as far as it could possibly go. We see Democritus and Epicurus divide all the world, as well as the universe, into two categories; atoms and empty space. Everything else is merely thought to exist. The atoms are eternal, infinite in size and number and they are moving through the empty space. There is no motion without empty space. Both Democritus and Epicurus agreed that motion was impossible in a plenum, but it is here that their theories diverge. In the cause of the motion, we begin to see a variety of opinions.
Both Democritus and Epicur…

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