ABSTRACT

Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles – one of the founding figures of Western philosophy – since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light.

 

chapter I|30 pages

The Single-Work Hypothesis

chapter II|42 pages

The Framework

Proem and Doctrine

chapter III|36 pages

Interpreting the Framework

chapter IV|72 pages

The Persuasion of Empedocles

chapter |12 pages

Conclusion