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”Parmenides Fr. 13 (Diels)And Hesiod says,8 “ First of all things was Chaos made, and then/Broad-bosomed Earth . . ./And Love, the foremost of immortal beings,
” thus implying that there must be in the world some cause to move things and combine them.The question of arranging these thinkers in order of priority may be decided later. Now since it was apparent that nature also contains the opposite of what is good, i.e. not only order and beauty, but disorder and ugliness;
1 Founder of the above; fl. about 475.
2 i.e. in the Δόξα. Parmenides Fr. 8 (Diels); R.P. 121.
3 Aristotle is probably thinking of Empedocles. Cf. Aristot. Met. 4.8.
4 Anaxagoras.
5 Cf. Plat. Phaedo 97b-98b.
6 A semi-mythical person supposed to have been a preincarnation of Pythagoras.
7 Probably Aphrodite (so Simplicius, Plutarch).
8 Hes. Th. 116-20. The quotation is slightly inaccurate.
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