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"People ask the gods for health in their prayers, but do not realize that the control of their health lies with them; through lack of self-control they act in opposition to it and so themselves betray their health to their desires."

~ Democritus
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@gutenberg_org Who’s gonna tell him? #JohnDalton #AtomicTheory #Democritus #Philosophy #Greece

@gutenberg_org Yes, #HappyBirthday to #physicist #MaxPlanck , who in 1900 was the founder of the #QuantumTheory - of #energy.

But a century earlier, using empirical data from 18th century #chemistry , #chemist #JohnDalton correctly postulated what could be called the #QuantumTheory of mass when he resurrected and modernized the #AncientGreek #philosophy of #Atomism attributed to #Democritus. #Histodons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_atomic_theory

@pareidolia I have yet to go to #Thrace (#BucketList destination). The #StreetArt by #iNO featuring #Democritus , to my #ChemicalEye the most visionary of #philosophers in #AncientGreece , is located in Piareus, the main port to #Athens. https://streetartnews.net/2015/09/we-have-power-new-mural-by-ino-in.html

@pareidolia Thrace is also the origin of #atomic theory 2,500 years ago, so should be near and dear to the dancing heart of all chemists!
#Histodons #Science #ValentinesDay #AncientGreece #Democritus

Things will inevitably go wrong, people will do wrong, motivated in bad ways. Should you cry over it? Or should you laugh about them? Or is there a better response? Here's a bit about Seneca's advice to us

https://medium.com/practical-rationality/senecas-insights-of-crying-laughing-or-accepting-7a0bdfba00e1
#Seneca #Advice #Stoicism #Heraclitus #Democritus

"In the weightiest matters we must go to school to the #animals, and learn spinning and weaving from the spider, building from the swallow, singing from the birds, — from the swan and the nightingale, imitating their art."

- #Democritus of Abdera - The Symmetry of Life

"Of practical #wisdom these are the three fruits: to #deliberate well, to #speak to the point, to do what is #right."

- #Democritus of Abdera - The Symmetry of Life

The #OG of #AtomicTheory in #Science , #Democritus.

#StreetArt in #Athens.

#Democritus (Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning *chosen of the people*) claimed that everything starts from *atoms*, in a *bottom-up* #causation.

#Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία, dēmokratiā, from dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') can be described as #emergent *top-down* #control mechanisms based on the free association and decision of autonomous individuals.

All #causation is *bottom-up* or from the *inside-out*. There is no such thing as *top-down causation* imposed from the outside. There is only an emergent (internal) level of constraints and other control mechanisms generated by the interaction of individuals fulfilling a common need or objective.

#Democritus (Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning "chosen of the people") - was the first to state that everything starts with "#atoms", in a "#BottomUp #Causation.

#Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία, dēmokratiā, from dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') - starts with the bottom-up association and decision of free individuals.

Still, it's good to know that #Bacon praised #Democritus for denying #teleology; if both #Democritus and #Lucretius deny it, then it seems like #Epicurus probably did too? @philosophy

I really want to talk to someone about #Spinoza's anti-teleological view, which #Schopenhauer tries to blame on a wish to avoid "speculative theology."

I think it's the opposite; Spinoza's theological view comes as a result of his seeing through the anthropomorphic illusion of teleology in nature. In this way, his insight is similar to the #Buddha #Nietzsche #Darwin and #Taoism.

Possibly also #Epicurus #Democritus et al; I have yet to read enough #Lucretius to say for sure.

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