Chapter 2: Pre-Socratics Flashcards
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Thales
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All is Water
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Milesians
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First western philosophers
Named after their town
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Anaximander
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Pupil of Thales
Fire surrounding dark mist
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Anaximenes
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All is air
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Puthagoreas
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Things are in accordance with numbers
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Heraclitus
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All is fire
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Problem of identity
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Heraclitus
You can never step into the same river twice
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Problem of personal identity
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You are not the same person you were when you were born or when you were 15 or when you are 60
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Parmenides
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Principles of reason
Being does not change
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Empedocles
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How and why
Four elements
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Anaxagoras
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The difference between matter and mind
Athens
Infinitely divisible
Mind controls matter
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Leucippus and Democritus
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Atomism
