The emergence of individuality in archaic practice from Homers’s myth to Empedocles
Keywords:
Individuality, Subjectivity, Myth, LogosAbstract
The article aims to explain the emergence of the concept of individuality from Homer and Hesiod on; the concept is difficult to capture from other mythical texts which use a different structure of thought. It is shown that subsequently in Heraclitus, Parmenides and Empedocles this concept becomes more complex and that in Plato and Aristotle there is a polysemy in its logos that transgresses myth in part and combines with the field of metaphysics so that it is thought of as an “individual substance” governed by the idea of “simplification”.
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