Leucippus

Leucippus and Democritus were the first to produce the thesis of determinism. The Hard Determinism of these two men proves that their they believe every event is caused by something necessary. Their hard determinism is summed up by a quote on page 220, it states: “Naught happens for nothing but everything from a ground of necessity”. They also believe freedom is a falsity. Now to compare, the Mythos vs. Logos debate, where mythos relate the beginnings of the world to supernatural origins. The opposing

Parmenides, argues that the void does not exist. This is the opinion of the Monist philosophers. The other group is the atomists who argue this thesis and believe there is a void. This group is primarily represented by the philosophers, Democritus and Leucippus.      Parmenides argues against the existence of the void. The plenum fragment states his opinion quite clearly:      "Nor is it divisible, since it is all alike; nor is there more here and

The philosophers Leucippus and Democritus are constantly mentioned in the same breath. Since the bulk of their works did not survive the middle ages, we have only fragments and the writings of their peers and successors to tell us about their accomplishments and ideas. It is difficult to separate these two men because they are praised or critiqued as a unit by contemporaries and followers, but their exact relationship is unclear. Sources such as Diogenes Laertius do not link them as teacher and student

It has always been difficult to overcome the established schools of thought; whenever a particular school of thought and philosophy is challenged it is the challenger who faces discrimination and hardships. The person who is challenging established philosophy will always have to bring with them conviction, foolproof evidence. It is through rigorous thought and experimentation that many controversial ideas are proven, but what do those who do not have the ability to perform experimentations do when

Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus is an oil painting created by Peter Paul Rubens in 1617. Peter Paul Rubens was a German-born Flemish Baroque painter. Baroque is a style that emphasizes movement, color, and sensuality. His catholic upbringing was influential in his religious references in his art. He was knighted by Philip IV in Spain and by Charles I in England. He was quoted saying, “My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings." He began his art apprenticeship at the early

Atomism: Democritus and Epicurus      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

significant symbol and founder of the development of the ancient atomic theory of the universe. Since he was a bright person every since a young age, he was an admirable geometer, as he was always pondering about everything. His teacher’s name was Leucippus, who was also a philosopher. Democritus got all of his motivation and knowledge from his teacher. Democritus and his teacher

suddenly start forming different shapes, until it made an actual observable thing in the universe. There are times, however, that Democritus was very wrong. For instance, both Democritus and Leucippus thought that the Earth was shaped like a cylinder. The only difference between Democritus and Leucippus’ logic was that Democritus thought that the Earth had

atoms. Going from Leucippus and Democritus to Ernest Rutherford the theory has expanded on influences of others experiments. It started before Jesus Christ was born. The structure of the atom and the atom has changed over a long period of time. Leucippus and Democritus discovered the atom(doc. 1). Ernest Rutherford split the atom and discovered that the atom is made of smaller particles and that atoms have a positively charged nucleus and largely empty space(doc. 1). Without Leucippus and Democritus

This art piece is titled The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus and the artist is Peter Paul Rubins. This work was created in 1618 in what was probably Antwerp, Belgium. The socio-cultural situation during at that time and place was tense with the short 12 year truce during Eighty Years War that resumed in 1619. This war was being fought at this time in what was called the Low Countries (comprised of some of modern Belgium) and included Antwerp. There were also conflicting religions with Protestants