Presocratic Philosophy

Question 1

Historical Context

Answer 1

Late 7th- Mid 5th Century BCE (Archaic-Classical Period)

Question 2

Location(s)

Answer 2

Ionia, Islands, Colonized Areas

Question 3

Philosopher(s)

Answer 3

Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras, Alcamaeon, Xenophanes, Empedocles, Anaxagoras

Question 4

Thales

Answer 4

Earth Rests on Water, Water is What All Things Come From

Question 5

Anaximander

Answer 5

Nature is What All Things Come From, Earth is Aloft, People Come From Fish

Question 6

Anaximenes

Answer 6

Earth, Sun, and Everything Else is Flat, Everything Rides on Air

Question 7

Pythagoras

Answer 7

Metempsychosis = Transmigration of the Soul, Aethilades son of Hermes, Euphorobus

Question 8

Alcamaeon

Answer 8

Soul is Immortal Because it is Always in Motion, Most Human Things Come In Pairs

Question 9

Xenophanes

Answer 9

Can Know Something But Not Really Know It, Humans Create Humanlike Gods, God is Beyond Human Morality, No Divine Hierarchy, Not Born Nor Died, Doesn’t Care About Human Affairs

Question 10

Empedocles

Answer 10

Once Spirits, Committed Crimes, Now Reincarnated, Four Primal Elements (Earth, Air, Fire, Water)

Question 11

Anaxagoras

Answer 11

People and Things Come From Moist + Ether