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Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: Life, birth and death in Democritus. Atomistic reflections between Physics and Ethics
Autor(es): Miriam Campolina Diniz Peixoto
Resumen: 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 examin-ing human behaviour and investigating how it reveals a certain tempera-ment 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.
Asunto: Demócrito
Vida
Nascimento (Filosofia)
Morte
Atomismo (Filosofia)
Idioma: por
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Institución: UFMG
Departamento: FAF - DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOSOFIA
Tipo de acceso: Acesso Aberto
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/pea.2017.1.8
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/54864
Fecha del documento: 2017
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/12219
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Peitho. Examina Antiqua
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