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First philosopher
Physis = water
Teacher of Anaximander |
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Came up with theory of evolution based on empirical evidence
Physis = apeiron
Teacher of Anaximenes |
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Wrote Tao The Ching
Focus on the nature of change
Becoming |
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Cosmologist
Influenced Plato
Mathematics is centra |
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Included women and slaves (HUGE for this time period)
Dualists
Promoted unity, balance, opposites |
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Gods are made in man's image
Morality is a human invention |
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Believed relationships were necessary for human existence
Emphasis on social and moral order to the exclusion of interest in nature
Being |
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Physis = fire
"No one can step in the same river twice."
Considered first empiricist |
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Change = illusion
Founder of rationalism
Teacher of Zeno of Elea |
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One of the first anatomists
First empirical observation of the human body
Holistic approach & wanted to discredit temple medicine |
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Zeno's paradoxes
Motion = illusion |
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Considered a founder of empiricism
Love attracts elements / strife separates elements
Everything emits eidola, which allows us to perceive |
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Truth is whatever position you are defending
Trust in sensory experience (max pleasure, min pain)
Man is the measure of all things |
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No objective way to establish truth
Power of the spoken word is crucial |
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Truth, beauty, justice
Charged with corrupting youth's minds |
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Father of medicine
Based practices on objective observations
Wasn't famous until Galen popularized him |
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Materialist and monist
Everything is made up of invisible atoms
Theories of primary senses and primary colours |
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Studied with Gorgias
Rejection of material goods |
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Dualist (perfect immortal soul, imperfect body)
Tripartite soul (reason/courage/appetite)
Organized people in a hierarchal fashion |
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Lived in a barrel
Student of Antisthenes
Nature should guide human behaviour more than social conventions |
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Scala Naturae
Theory of Cause
Teleology (entelechy = purpose) |
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Materialist (including soul)
Hedonism = satisfying basic needs and avoiding pain
Avoid pleasures because their absence causes pain |
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Whatever happens, happens for a reason
Material possessions have no value; virtue alone is important
Stoic (might as well develop an indifferent attitude) |
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Publicized Hippocrates' work
Founder of experimental neurology
Contralateral control, venus/arterial blood systems |
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