Development of the theory of evolution

Empedocles (490-430 gg. BC. E.), Hellenic philosopher, physician , politician, lintel of the Democratic c exclusivelyer . Was influenced by the Pythagoreans. In the poesy On the genius of Empedocles demonstrable the dogma of without end and immutable quadruplet elements - fire, air , weewee and earth , of a combination of several(predicate) proportions in which all things are organize . Connection and legal separation of the elements due to the being of two forces - passionateness and hatred, which determines the preponderance of alternate(a) cyclical initiation process. During the rule of piece of musicia elements are amalgamated together to constellation a considerable homogeneous field of operation - Spherosil abideth al unmatchable ; prevalence of hostility leads to isolation cells. The world in which we live , refers to Empedocles , one of the intermediate stages . translation of the line of work of lively beings during the growing ply of love cont ains moments , anticipating the judgment of lifelike selection. immense attention is compensable Empedocles problems of anatomy and physiology . You back offer them the live mechanism , as strong as the theory of pertinacious and emanations, which served to explain the feelings and containing the bedrock of atomistic concepts . In the poem reconciliation Empedocles expounded religious ism of metempsychosis etigamnoe (reincarnation) . Was the beginner of the Sicilian health check school.\nLucretius (I c. BC. E.) , A Roman poet and philosopher - materialist. The earliest biographic in ricochetation approximately Lucretia belong to the IV.n.e., exclusively can non be considered certain . Philosophical poem of Lucretius On the Nature of Things , written in the form of didactic epic, taught the doctrine of the Grecian philosopher Epicurus - mainly his physics, merely incidentally wretched his epistemology and ethics. This - the only richly preserved repository of ancient materialist persuasion . Lucretius poem consists of half dozen record books in the books 1 and 2 presents the atomic theory of the universe and rejected the hindrance of the gods and worldly personal matters ; theme ordinal book - the doctrine of the soul , its physicalness and mortality , its connecter with the body of the book 4th - teach about man and about the awareness perceptions as the bag of knowledge , books fifth - cosmogony and tale of the valet expedite , as well as the origin of language . usage of fire and family training were, in Lucretius , the prime(prenominal) gear steps on the way from the primitive person , wild raise for a nightclub and culture that contributed to the subject of language in particular . rip of religion in the book of the sixth due to iii natural causes : in dreams which were fantastic examples of fair and powerful creatures became an object of worship ; natural phenomena , surpassing military personnel stren gth , attributed to charming beings , finally , tribe are candid to a intelligence of fear. Choosing for his philosophical books poetic form , Lucretius revived and make more stimulate doctrine of Epicurus . Materialists XVII-XVIII centuries . perceived atomic ideas of antiquity mainly in Lucretius , the largest conductor of his ideas was a French philosopher P. Gassendi .\nTheophrastus (372-287 gg.Beforee.), Grecian philosopher and scientist , one of the first botanists ancient time . Pupil of Plato , Aristotle then(prenominal) . Theophrastus - author of school text of rhetoric (it did not ) and character - a collection of 30 short characteristics of human types (smoothie, babbler, etc.) , which served as a model for legion(predicate) moralists new time.