The Greek Natural Philosophers

Question 1

Thales

Answer 1

The source of all things is water

Question 2

Anaximander

Answer 2

Our world is only a part of a myriad of worlds that evolve/dissolve into “The Boundless”

Question 3

Anaximenes

Answer 3

The source is air or vapour

Question 4

Heraclitus

Answer 4

You can’t step in the same river twice. Everything changes constantly in a world of opposites. God is the unchanging universal law.

Question 5

Parmenides

Answer 5

Nothing comes from nothing. Things don’t remain the same.

Question 6

Empidocles

Answer 6

Four elements; EAFW. Two natural forces: Love & Strife binds or seperates the elements

Question 7

Anaxagoras

Answer 7

Whole of an object exists in each tiny part of it. Seeds of everything ARE in everything

Question 8

Democritus

Answer 8

Uncuttable atoms exist and all is built of them; they’re eternal, immutable, indivisible

Question 9

Hippocrates

Answer 9

First doctor to say illnesses were not work of god’s/fate

Question 10

Protagoras

Answer 10

No norms for right/wrong. Man is the measure of all things.

Question 11

Socrates

Answer 11

First philosopher. Motto; he knew nothing at all. Discovered using discourse/rhetoric

Question 12

Plato

Answer 12

Socrates student. Sought eternal truth/beauty/good

Question 13

Aristotle

Answer 13

Plato’s student. Disagreed with the world of idea’s/forms