Philosophy Flashcards
Who said that everything flows, and that things were always changing?
Heraclitus
Who said that the boundless was in fact air?
Anaxamenes
Who said that there is no becoming, and only being, so nothing is ever changing?
Parmenides
Who proposed that the archae/water/boundless made up all things, and that things moved from bound to unbound?
Anaximander
Who measured the Great Pyramid, predicted a solar eclipse in 585 BCE and accurately said the olive crop growth?
Thales
Who said that un-cutable atoms and the void makes up all matter in the universe?
Democritus
Who was banished for saying that the sun was a rock on fire, far far away, that there may be other life forms on other planets, and that there are infinite ‘seeds’ making up the universe?
Anaxagoras
Who said that the forces of love and strife move the 4 elements: Earth, Fire, Air, and Water?
Empedocles
Who believed all matter was created using mathematics, and created a cult who didn’t eat beans and believed in reincarnation?
Pythagoras
What is a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
Rationalism
What is the idea that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience?
Empiricism
What belief says that a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort is more important than spiritual values.
Materialism
