Democritus: Chaldeans and Anaxagoras and Pythagoras

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¹ Democritus was:

the son of Hegesistratus, but as some say, of Athenocrites, and, according to other accounts, of Damasippus.
a native of Abdera, and a citizen of Miletus.

² He was a pupil of some of the Magi and Chaldæans, whom Xerxes had left with his father as teachers, when he had been hospitably received by him, as Herodotus informs us.

The Doctrines of Democritus

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Democritus’ Doctrines

¹² Atoms and the vacuum were the beginning of the universe.

Everything else existed only in opinion.

The worlds were infinite, created, and perishable.

Nothing was created out of nothing, and that nothing was destroyed so as to become nothing.

Materialists on Superphysics

Democritus: Chaldeans and Anaxagoras and Pythagoras

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