POLI 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Aristoxenus, Theophrastus, Lucretius
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Aristoxenus wrote that plato wanted to burn all the works of (cid:1) (cid:1) democritus was born at abdera, thrace, sometime around 458 bce. He was described as well traveled, probably visiting babylon, egypt, and. He appears to have spent all of his time on scientific and philosophical studies, teaching, and writing some 60 works have been listed. Of his voluminous writings, only a few fragments of his ethical theory remain. But these fragments and the descriptions by other writers of his atomic theory put him among the foremost thinkers of his time. (cid:1) Democritus, but could not do so because the books were already in wide circulation. Failing this, he avoided any mention of democritus in his own writings. It resolved the question of how a world evidently in a state of flux could nevertheless have an underlying nature that was eternal and unchanging.
