The Presocratics: Leucippus and Democritus

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By accepting a void in the universe, the pre-Socratic Atomists were able to theorize in a different direction and influence both philosophy and science at the same time. Theorizing about man's place in the universe eventually led to theories about ethics and what the good life is supposed to be.

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Leucippus and Democritus: 0:55
Euthumie: 13:40

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Anaximander: https://rumble.com/v1gsppb-the-presocratics-anaximander.html
Anaximenes: https://rumble.com/v1gsqol-the-presocratics-anaximenes.html
Xenophanes: https://rumble.com/v1gsr8l-the-presocratics-xenophanes.html
Heraclitus: https://rumble.com/v1gst93-the-presocratics-heraclitus.html
Pythagoras: https://rumble.com/v1gsugl-the-presocratics-pythagoras.html
Parmenides: https://rumble.com/v1gsvkl-the-presocratics-parmenides.html
Zeno of Elea: https://rumble.com/v1ydoqc-the-presocratics-zeno-of-elea.html
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Leucippus and Democritus: https://rumble.com/v4ifd2u-the-presocratics-leucippus-and-democritus.html
Diogenes of Apollonia: https://rumble.com/v4jqfph-the-presocratics-diogenes-of-apollonia.html

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Resources:

The Presocratic Philosophers - Kirk & Raven: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780521274555/

A Presocratic Reader - Richard McKirahan: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781603843058/

The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments - C.C.W. Taylor: Paperback: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780802043900/

Annas, Julia. 2002. “Democritus and Eudaimonism,” in Caston and Graham, pp. 169–82.

Johnson, Monte Ransome, 'The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera', in David Conan Wolfsdorf (ed.), Early Greek Ethics (Oxford, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Oct. 2020)