title: The great Greek “charlatan”: Empedocles
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metadata.value: Rudin, Oleg V.
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metadata.value: 2022-08-25T19:25:21Z
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metadata.value: 2022-08-25T19:25:21Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Rudin O. V. The great Greek “charlatan”: Empedocles. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2022, vol. 38, issue 1, pp. 52–63.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37483
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metadata.value: This article revises the views about Empedocles of Akragas. Even contemporaries of the
  thinker were confronted with the question of whether he was a great sage or a charlatan. The
  combination of “scientific” and prophetic knowledge embarrassed more than one generation
  of researchers, making them accuse Empedocles of superficial eclecticism or see him as an
  inconsistent representative of antique mechanical philosophy. With no intention to give a final
  answer to this question, the article suggests looking at this problem from a different angle by
  focusing more on the lifestyle of Empedocles and less on his theoretical provisions of philosophy.
  The first part of the article provides a brief outline of the history of the concept of “charlatanism”
  and considers the image of Empedocles as a Greek alazon. The internal motives of
  the political and public activity of Akragas accompanied by provocative behavior and claims
  to divine status are considered. It is suggested that the personality conflict of Empedocles, the
  discrepancy of external appearance and acts, is primarily due to pedagogical purposes and
  desire to deliver saving truths to his contemporaries who were mired in vices. The second
  part of the article deals with a hypothesis about breathing exercises of Empedocles. The main
  attention is paid to the 129 B (DK) and 100 B (DK) fragments, with an attempt to reconstruct
  the breathing practice of Empedocles as a thought technique aimed at gaining access to higher
  knowledge.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 38; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Empedocles
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: charlatanism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: alazon
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rhetoric
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: parrhesia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: breathing exercise
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The great Greek “charlatan”: Empedocles
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metadata.value: Article
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