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Month: May 2021

May 24, 2021
Hölderlin’s Reflections on the Death of Empedocles: A Mourning Play

Hölderlin’s Reflections on the Death of Empedocles: A Mourning Play

Friedrich Hölderlin was a German poet and philosopher (1770-1843) devoted to classical Greek culture. Much of his work concerns the memorialization of classical antiquity, blending its mythology with the exhausted Christian mythos of his day, and attempting to clear a space for the departed gods to walk once more with men. As a result, he …

May 4, 2021
The Life and Philosophy of Empedocles

The Life and Philosophy of Empedocles

Empedocles (c.494-c.434 BC), like Pythagoras, is a presocratic philosopher whom contemporary expositors either deride or ignore. Because he is a philosopher who sings, invoking the muse and articulating his doctrines as hexameter poems (D7)[1], if it is presented at all, he is presented as an object of either pity (for his alleged ignorance) or scorn …

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