The Lexicon · Genealogy · Antiquity
EMPEDOCLES
c. 494–434 BCE
Love and Strife (Anti-Anti-Ness)
Empedocles: the cosmos cycles between Love (which unites the elements) and Strife (which divides them). CoCA suspends the cycle at the moment of Love and refuses Strife. Anti-Anti-Ness (§1.2.5) is the doctrinal stilling of the negative phase. We do not deny that Strife exists. We decline to participate. The institution is built to dissipate Strife rather than reproduce it. Empedocles is half a cosmology. The other half is unsubscribed.