Question
This philosopher is the student of a man who broke from Parmenides and the Eleatic School, Leucippus of Miletus. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this philosopher whose ideas were built upon by Lucretius when he came up with the concept of clinamen. This thinker is referred to as the “laughing philosopher.”
ANSWER: Democritus
[10e] Democritus is often seen as the father of a school named for these entities along with Leucippus. Clinamen refers to the swerve of these indivisible units of matter which compose everything.
ANSWER: atoms
[10h] Some philosophers theorize that this man preceded Democritus and Leucippus with his theory of unit-point atomism. This thinker also believed in a form of reincarnation called metempsychosis.
ANSWER: Pythagoras of Samos (Yes, the triangle guy.)
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