The Atoms of Democritus between Matter and Life

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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA

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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA - 2023 - 2. Matter and Its Semantic Correlations Some Ancient and Modern Examples

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The Atoms of Democritus between Matter and Life

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Georg Rechenauer

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Vita e Pensiero

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07-2023

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10.26350/001050_000393

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0035-6247 (stampa) | 1827-7926 (digitale)

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The problem how to define the nature of the atomistic substance is one of the most exciting questions arising in the interpretation of Presocratic philosophy. Given the fact that Democritus explained all phenomena in nature including the processes of life and consciousness only by means of an – as is generally believed – exclusively materialistic doctrine, there emerges the problem how to bridge the gap between the inanimate physics and the animate processes. For this purpose special interest will be laid on the semantic implications for the concept of atomic matter as they appear in the confrontation of the «full» of the atoms with the void. By this there can be shown that it is the idea of form as an ever existing entity that functions as the essential precondition for composing atomic conglomerations but also of the emerging qualities of life.