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- | Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, | + | Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers. A complete translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker |
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+ | ====== Alcmaeon of Croton: Fragments ====== | ||
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+ | ===== Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers ===== | ||
- | ====== 24. ALCMAEÔN OF CROTÔN ====== | ||
Alcmaeôn of Crotôn was in his prime at the beginning of the fifth century B.C. | Alcmaeôn of Crotôn was in his prime at the beginning of the fifth century B.C. | ||
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5. It is easier to guard against an enemy than against a friend. | 5. It is easier to guard against an enemy than against a friend. | ||
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+ | Early Greek Philosophy by John Burnet, 3rd edition (1920). London: A & C Black Ltd. | ||
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+ | ===== Early Greek Philosophy ===== | ||
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+ | Alcmaeon of Croton | ||
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+ | Aristotle tells us that Alkmaion of Kroton was a young man in the old age of Pythagoras. He does not actually say, as later writers do, that he was a Pythagorean, | ||
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+ | Alkmaion' | ||
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+ | His astronomy seems very crude for one who stood in close relations with the Pythagoreans. We are told that he adopted Anaximenes' | ||
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