Atomism

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy declares concerning Atomism:

“  |  This Atomist natural philosophy eschewed teleological explanation and denied divine intervention or design, regarding every composite of atoms as produced purely by material interactions of bodies, and accounting for the perceived properties of macroscopic bodies as produced by these same atomic interactions. Atomists formulated views on ethics, theology, political philosophy and epistemology consistent with this physical system. This powerful and consistent materialism, somewhat modified from its original form by Epicurus, persisted as the chief competitor to the teleological natural philosophies of the Peripatetics, Stoics and Platonists.[1] |  ”

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## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atomism-ancient/