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Pre-Socratics
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Degree Intro to Ancient Mind Map on Pre-Socratics, created by Jenny George on 09/06/2013.
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Pre-Socratics
Milesians
Thales
Everything is water
First structured system w/out Gods
Anaximander
Everything is Apeiron
Limitless, Infinite
Anaximines
Everything is Air
First principle is finite, unlike the things it creates
Heraclitus
Flux
Reletavism
Language
Theory of Opposites
Unity of Opposites
Measured tensions
Sun rise and sun set
Paradox Form
Fire
Metaphorical and Practical
Symbolic
Parmenides
Way of Truth
Difficult to understand
Exploration of Being and not Being
No account for change-change is not possible
How do we talk about nothing?
Way of Seeming
Told it to be a lie
Accurate, up to date view of philosophy and science
Purpose/Development
The atomists
Atoms and Void
We see things as sheets of Atoms coming at us
We never see the objects themselves
First attempt to account for change
Hooks and points
Atoms only differ in shape and volume
Ethics
by convention sweet, by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention colour; but in reality atoms and void
Senses can't be trusted
Need senses for reason
Self-refuting?
Protagoras
Man is the measure of all things
Extreme Relativism
Conflicting views are equally true
Teaching is impossible
Flouts law of non-contradiction
Second interpretation: truth for me and truth for you-qualification
Like Heraclitus-good for one species, bad for another
Self-refuting?
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