Atomic Biography
Democritus Disciple of leucipo. (460 – 370 before Jesus Christ) it seems to have realised numerous trips and according to Diogenes Laercio. To have studied " with some magicians and heatings that the king jerjes, I leave by teachers its father when I stay in its house " although study in Athens, I am not related to philosophers attics of its time, thus permanecio relatively ignored, well that Aristotle talks about to, just like to leucipo, with the same detail that to the other pre-Socratic ones. In its metaphysics and other works. Decia Aristotle (of gene, cor ET.
315 to 35) that Democritus " not only it seems to have thought all the problems carefully, but to have distinguished of the rest of the philosophers by his method " the arguments of Democritus are, according to the estagirita, appropriate to their subject and derivatives of the knowledge of the nature. (ibid 316 to 12) even though as it indicates in metaphysics > and Phys, I AND II – they turn out insufficient by not to have considered multiple the meaning of cause and movement. The theories of Leucipo and Democritus were yet but you allow. (of gene. ET. Cor 324 to 1) But that no other previous philosopher emphasizes Democritus the uncertainty of the sensible impressions. It affirms that its origin is in something but fundamental that the sensation, the principles that it establishes in his explanation of the universe as much seem to be a synthesis of the eleatica doctrine as of the one of Heraclitus: " principles " the plenty and it emptiness, that is to say " TO BE " and not " SER" the being is the atoms, whose I number is infinite, and being different itself to each other not by sensible qualities, like homeomerias of Anaxagoras, but by its origin, he appears and position.