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Empedocles the Philosopher Empedocles was a Greek doctor, poet and philosopher. He assumed that there must be more than one kind of matter, and claimed four roots as elements. Love and strife were considered principles of attraction and repulsion that alternately dominated the universe in a recurring cycle. Empedocles was born in Agirentum Sicily in about 404 BC. He was the son of Meto, a wealthy citizen and grandson of Empedocles who was a victor in …

…cycle. The ingredients separate when strife breaks the cycle. Everything comes together with love, and when strife enters it starts all over again. He lived to the age of sixty. He was not only a philosopher but a poet, a physicist, and a social reformer. He is a man of so much enthusiasm, that he would easily be considered a charlatan by some people. And in the eyes of others he become a legendary hero.