Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“More scientific than Parmenides, Plato, and Aristotle… The originality of Empedocles' originality, outside science, consists in the doctrine of the four elements and in the use of the two principles of Life and Strife to explain change.”

— Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970 CE
“20th century Voltaire”
from History of Western Philosophy

Comments (1)

  1. Shan Dao
    Shan Dao 8 years ago
    Empedocles' description of Life and Strife closely mirror Lao Tzu and the principles of Yin and Yang... maybe East and West weren't so separated, even that far back.
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