History Of Western Philosophy

Question 1

Paremenides

Answer 1

Not an empiricist, instead he is a rationalist

Question 2

Thales

Answer 2

Early empiricist (water)

Question 3

Anaximander

Answer 3

(Water doesn’t seem basic enough) -> THE BOUNDLESS (empiricism + logic) / Vortex motion: keeps things in order (MODERATION)

Question 4

Xenophanes

Answer 4

Gods are unworthy of our admiration - there is only one god, and the Greek god are a really inaccurate description of the divine

Question 5

Heraclitus

Answer 5

The world is in flux, just like the flames on a candle
Logos -> universe order / force

Question 6

Democritus

Answer 6

Atoms = uncuttable, atoms can group together all within a continuous void -> being
Radical doubt is sneaking in skepticism- convention =/ relativism

Question 7

RELATIVISM

Answer 7

• There is an objective truth about the world but we human can never find it
• There is no objective truth out there
  -> 2 different claims

Question 8

Pre Socratic

Answer 8

Proto - scientist, natural philosopher
Explain stuff you can seem, touch, smell, hear in terms of other things you can see, etc

Question 9

Early empiricist (Thales)

Answer 9

Meaning he relied on explanations that appealed to sensory data

Question 10

Epistemology

Answer 10

Study of knowledge