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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aB218.Z7 _bF47 2024
082	0	0	_a113 _223/eng/20230823
100	1		_aFerella, Chiara, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aReconstructing Empedocles' thought / _cChiara Ferella.
264		1	_aCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : _bCambridge University Press, _c2024.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 403 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Feb 2024).
520			_aTo understand Empedocles' thought, one must view his work as a unified whole of religion and physics. Only a few interpreters, however, recognise rebirth as a positive doctrine within Empedocles' physics and attempt to reconcile its details with the cosmological account. This study shows how rebirth underlies Empedocles' cosmic system, being a structuring principle of his physics. It reconstructs the proem to his physical poem and then shows that claims to disembodied existence, individual identity and personal survival of death(s) prove central to his physics; that knowledge of the cosmos is the path to escape rebirth; that purifications are essential to comprehending the world and changing one's being, and that the cosmic cycle, with its ethical import, is the ideal backdrop for Empedocles' doctrine of rebirth. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
600	0	0	_aEmpedocles _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		0	_aPhilosophy of nature.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781009392570
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009392600
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