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S<\/span>tatue of Democritus. <\/span>Handmade of alabaster,and painted in museum patina.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Democritus\u00a0(c. 460 – c. 370 BCE) was a\u00a0Greek\u00a0philosopher and younger contemporary of\u00a0Socrates<\/a>, born in Abdera (though other sources cite Miletus) who, with his teacher Leucippus, was the first to propose an atomic universe.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Known as the ‘laughing philosopher’ because of the importance he placed on ‘cheerfulness’.\u00a0 \u00a0Democritus was the first philosopher to posit that what we refer to as the ‘Milky Way’ was the light of stars reaching our perception.\u00a0 And that the universe may in fact be a multi-verse with other planets sustaining life .\u00a0 A theory which Physicists today are increasingly recognizing as mathematically probable.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

HIS BELIEFS OF ATOMS<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

In response to Parmenides<\/a>‘ claim that change is impossible and all is One, Democritus, among others, tried to find a way to show how change and motion can be while still maintaining the unity of the physical world. With Leucippus, Democritus argued that the world, including human beings, is composed of very small particles which he called ‘atomos’.\u00a0 And that these atoms make up everything we see and are. When we are born, our atoms are held together by a body-shape with a soul inside, also composed of atoms and, while we live, we perceive all that we do by an apprehension of atoms outside of the body being received and interpreted by the soul inside of the body.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

So when atoms have been combined into one certain form,\u00a0 we look at that form and say.\u00a0 \u201cThat is a book\u201d.\u00a0 And when they have been combined in another we say, \u201cThat is a tree\u201d but, however these atoms combine, they are all One, ‘un-cutable’, and indestructible. When we die our body-shape loses energy and our atoms disperse.\u00a0 As there is no longer a soul inside the corpse to generate the heat which holds the body-shape atoms together.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

THE SOUL<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

According to Aristotle<\/a>, Democritus claimed the soul was composed of fire-atoms.\u00a0 While the body was of earth-atoms and the earth-atoms needed the energy of the fire for cohesion. Still, Aristotle also asserts, this did not mean these atoms were different atoms, rather that they were like letters of the alphabet which, though they are all letters, stand for different sounds and, combined in various ways, spell different words. To use a very simple example, the letters ‘N’, ‘D’ ‘A’ can be combined to spell the word ‘and’ .\u00a0 But with a different combination, we spell the name ‘Dan’.\u00a0 Which, while it has a different and distinct meaning from ‘and’ is still made up of the same letters.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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