1. Classical greece

Question 1

Thales 585

Answer 1

the world emerged out of water and floats on it; everything at its roots is composed of water

Question 2

anaximenes 535

Answer 2

the fundamental thing that things of made of is “air”: lest to most dense: fire, wind, water, eath, etc

Question 3

heraclitus 500

Answer 3

fire is basic element; world is without beginning or end; constant change

Question 4

democritus 410

Answer 4

world is made up of different kinds of moving, indivisible atoms with void between them

Question 5

Materialism

Answer 5

philosophical idea that the world can be understood and described in terms of its material substrate. no appeal to supernatual or immaterial forces is necessary.

Question 6

empedocles 450

Answer 6

material ingredients +immaterial principles (love+strive)

Question 7

epistimology

Answer 7

the question of knowledge and the method by which we get to it

Question 8

plato 427-348

Answer 8

real of forms = perfect 2. material realm = imperfect

Question 9

plato epistimology

Answer 9

observation is not so great, our senses deceive us.

Best way to gain knowledge is through reason.

Question 10

world according to plato

Answer 10

demiurge(embodiment of rationality) used 4 elements, earth water air and fire. which are mathematical and geometric in nature (platonic solids)

Question 11

plato’s world

Answer 11

earth is sphere, celestial sphere with fixed star moves around earth once a day. sun, other plants move aorund earth in a circle

Question 12

two sphere model

Answer 12

earth nestled in celestial sphere. has fixed stars, the moon, the sun, and wadering stars = planets. retrograde motion

Question 13

heraclides 390 bce

Answer 13

earth rotates on axis

Question 14

aristarchus 310- 230 bce

Answer 14

sun at centre of the universe

Question 15

aristotle causes

Answer 15

Formal: form. Material: Stuff its made of. Efficient: agency that causes change Final : the purpose fulfilled by the chang