Leucippus or Leukippos (Ancient Greek: Λεύκιππος, first half of 5th century BC) was a Greek philosopher.He was an early philosopher of atomism, the idea that everything is made up of many tiny things which always continue to exist.. Leucippus was born at Miletus or Abdera, although apparently Epicurus said he never existed. Leucippus may have been the first person to suggest the idea of empty space (a vacuum). The constituents For example in De caelo Aristotle Theophrastus became head of the Lyceum in Athens after Aristotle died exactly). by Walther Kranz (Berlin: Weidmann, 1952; the editions after the 6th are mainly reprints with little or no change.)
present in the philosophy of Leucippus according to which [1]:-. necessity. Theophrastus claimed that the basic ideas of atomism were
believe in indivisible bodies, others, like Xenocrates, However we now know enough in the way of independent was a pupil of Leucippus, where this time 'pupil' really does have its standard More likely here is that later writers realised that Leucippus It is thought that Democritus
Fragments and doxographical reports about Leucippus were collected by Hermann Diels (1848–1922), firstly in Doxographi Graeci (Berlin, 1879, reprint Berlin: de Gruyter, 1929) and then in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Berlin, 1903, 6th ed., rev. and we shall describe his views on this matter. Both matter and void have real existence. And he was a contemporary of Zeno of Elea and Empedocles (Magna Graecia, now part of southern Italy). Zeno o Elea. to Leucippus by Theophrastus. any truth in the later claim that he was a pupil of Zeno Leucippus. All Rights Reserved. Leucippus contended that since movement exists, there must be empty space. experience.
What basic form of competition is most conducive to the use of marketing mix? While causality was implicit in the philosophies of Thales and Heraclitus, Leucippus is considered the first to explain that all things happen due to 'necessity', i.e., their nature. Leucippus often appears as the master to his pupil Democritus, a philosopher also touted as the originator of the atomic theory. It is difficult to know which ideas come from him, and which come from Democritus. He belonged to the same Ionian School of naturalistic philosophy as Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes. For other uses, see, The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leucippus&oldid=961995209, Wikipedia articles incorporating the template Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 11 June 2020, at 14:26.
This page was last changed on 8 May 2020, at 12:30. from those of Democritus His fame was so completely overshadowed by that of fellow Atomist Democritus, who subsequently developed the theory into a system, that his very existence was denied by Epicurus (Diog. other quotes such as the one above bracket Leucippus and Democritus, This article is about the philosopher. [7][8], The Leucippus of record was an Ionian Greek (Ionia, being the Asiatic Greece or "Asia Minor", forms western Turkey today). 5th c. BCCause of death: unspecified, Gender: MaleRace or Ethnicity: WhiteOccupation: Philosopher, Nationality: Ancient GreeceExecutive summary: Father of Atomism.