Empedocles

Empedocles believes the cosmos to be guided by love and strife. There is a clear distinction between him and the material monists. First of, materialism is a result and direct guidance of the force of love and strife and therefore the Arche is not material but instead, intangible things. Those two things seem to be the arche, which might be the interaction between these two elements. Every material and its derivative is the result of the tug and push between love and strife. However, I came to understand that love and strife manage the "roots" or elemets of the cosmos which therefore give rise to everything else, but how were these elements created? Did love and strife give birth to these elements? He seems to to place both the tangible and intangible things as the result of creation as to be able to explain the questions that arise from having one without the other. For if only materialism was the only reality, then many question arise as two what drives the material world. In contrast, if the intangible things are the only reality then what are the materials that we perceive to be. It makes sense to think that he puts these two forces that are infinite as a means to explain the material interactions.