A green plate with a smiley face made of various fruits: two red apples for eyes, a green key lime for the nose, and a yellow banana for the mouth.
I'm sure the Buddha gave you plenty to chew on until the West catches up in wisdom with Socrates (you can hang onto your hunger for another hundred years, right?)
Few Minutes Knowledge: Empedocles
https://youtu.be/9wUKgGd2lTE?si=JiOnM2Jc-R7ohc9K
Academy of Ideas: Introduction to Empedocles
http://academyofideas.com/2013/01/introduction-to-empedocles/
Crash Course: The Pre-Socratics
https://youtu.be/epCOGAa7tRQ?si=Y0sGpiwlh6yg-i95
Marquee sign with bright lights, displaying 'Now Playing: The Main Event' in bold black letters.
Unless you’re up for a marathon, let’s stick with training on this one. More specifically, for at least one of the Pre-Socratics I would like you to lift the weight of the Crash Course video about them provided above.
Silhouettes of seven runners in shades of orange, yellow, and red running from left to right, with the caption "Spirit of the Marathon" beneath them.
King's College London/LMU: History of Philosophy without any Gaps – All You Need is Love, and Five Other Things: Empedocles
http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/empedocles
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Empedocles 490 BCE - 430 BCE (approx.) from Sophie’s World
(First appears in the chapter titled "The Natural Philosophers")