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35Democritus on Being and Ought: Some Remarks on the Existential Side of Early Greek AtomismAKROPOLIS: Journal of Hellenic Studies 2 67-84. 2018.According to Democritus' anthropogeny is a microcosmic consequence within the process of cosmogony. However, the case of man is a peculiarity: man, this atom complex, is well aware of himself, yet is not aware of what he must do. Man does not naturally do that which promotes the harmonious ordering of his atoms. We must create a second nature. Now it becomes possible for us to be as we must be according to our first nature. Democritus is the is first thinker who explains to us what our nature is…Read more
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