PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- The introduction of Love and Strife creates a problem for the Empedoclean system. As Simplicius points out,
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He makes the material elements four in number, fire, air, water and earth, all eternal, but changing in bulk and scarcity through mixture and separation; but his real first principles, which impart motion to these, are Love and Strife. The elements are continually subject to an alternate change, at one time mixed together by Love, and another separated by Strife; so that the first principles are, by his account, six in number.