Empedocles

High school (ages 12+)
Philosophy & Big Questions

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/empedocles

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Empedocles born?Circa 494 BC
2. Where was Empedocles born?Akragas, Magna Graecia (modern Sicily)
3. What did Empedocles think everything was made of?Empedocles believed that all things are made of four eternal elements: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire.
4. Who was Empedocles?Empedocles was a Greek thinker from Sicily who was also a statesman, doctor, poet, and prophet.

Pre-Socratic Philosopher: A Greek thinker who lived before Socrates, focusing on cosmology and the nature of reality.
Ontology: The philosophical study of being and existence.
Metempsychosis: The philosophical belief that a soul can be reborn into a new body after death.