Introduction

i d all you need is love and five other things. Empedocles was a Greek philosopher who died by throwing himself into a volcano in order to vanish without trace. Diogenes laartius claims that empedocles did indeed make quite an impression, because of the miracles he performed. The first philosophers we'll talk about who had the opportunity to write on paper will be the mediaeval thinkers in the islamic world. i peter adamson: In ancient philosophy, that's as exciting as it gets.