Buddhist atomism - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Atomism: Encyclopedia - Buddhist Atomism
Buddhist atoms in the tradition of Buddhist atomism underwent a very rich period during the time of Dharmakirti. In discussing Buddhist ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atomism: Encyclopedia - Atomism
Atomism is the theory that all the objects in the universe are composed of very small, indestructible elements. Or, stated in other words...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atomism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atomism - Consequences For Guiding One's Life
Epicurus studied atomism with Nausiphanes who had been a student of Democritus. But Epicurus was less interested in the part of Democritu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atomism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atomism - Facing Reality
Plato objected to the mechanistic purposelessness of the atomism of Democritus. He argued that atoms just crashing into other atoms could...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atomism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atomism - Is There An Ultimate Indivisible Unit Of Matter?
At least as early as 400 BC, Democritus was teaching and writing that the hidden substance in all physical objects consists of different ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atomism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atomism - Atoms Change
Sometime before 330 BC Aristotle asserted that the atoms of fire, air, earth, and water actually change when making new combinations to f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atomism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atomism - Islam Preserves Atomism
Atomistic philosophies are found very early in Islam, and represent a synthesis of the Greek and Indian ideas. Like both the Greek and In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atomism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atomism - A Different Atom For Each Element
By the late 1700s, the useful practices of engineering and technology began to influence philosophical explanations for the composition o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atomism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atomism - The Atomic Renaissance
Aristotle held sway in the universities of Europe for most of the Middle Ages, and even through the time of Newton Aristotelian physics w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atomism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atomism - Are There Different Elements?
Empedocles about 450 BC looked at the puzzle of similarities and differences and conjectured in a poem also titled "On Nature" that thing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atomism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atomism - Indian Atomism
As Hindu and Buddhist theology began to mature, a number of distinct schools of philosophy emerged in India. The origins of Indian atomis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atomism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atomism - The Puzzle Of Similarities And Differences
The various arguments of atomism trace the various attempts to understand sufficiently why some things of the world, such as different fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atomism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atomism - Is There An Ultimate, Indivisible Unit Of Matter?
At least as early as 400 BC, Democritus was teaching and writing that the hidden substance in all physical objects consists of different ...   » Read the article