The world is an ever-living fire (flux) of conflict and struggle. This process is what keeps reality in a stasis. The process of change is a product of universal reason (logos). What appear to be disjointed events are actually intimately harmonized
Thales
Anaximander
Anaximemes
Pythagoras
Hericlitus
Democritus
Empedocles
Zeno
Anaxagoras
Parmenides
The only reality is in the certain. That certain is mathematics.Everything can be represented as numbers. The chief goal of rational thought is to purify the soul.
Heraclitus
democritus
empedocles
Thales was concerned with...
The primary substance being water
Mathematics
The true nature of things
theory of forms
The nature of the element air
What is true about Thale's pupil Anaximander's contribution to Philosophy?
All life arose from the sea
Air is at the root of all things
He invented the notion of the boundless
Something either IS or IS NOT i.e a cow vs. a unicorn
Which of the following best describes Zeno?
He frequently uses poetry to convey his ideas about reality being static and indivisible
He is primarily concerned with morals and human behavior rather than physical nature
He reinforced Parmenides idea of "The One" through a series of paradoxes to show that motion and seperation are an illusion
He devised the concept of nous, a cognative force in the universe that maintains order
Reality is in alternating states of eros (love) and aron (strife)
Who came up with the idea of atomism?
Plato
Anaxagoras believed that existance is ruled by a cycle of love and strife
Protagoras belived that
Whatever the 'divine power' makes true is true
Whatever people believe is true
Sensory knowledge is the most true
Cognitive knowledge is the most true
True knowledge is an illusion
