Group 9 - Historian

THE HISTORICA FILES:
BASIC FACTUAL BACKGROUND OF THE CENTURY:
- Four Questions:
xoxoxoWhere does everything come from?
xoxoxoWhat made everything?
xoxoxoHow do we describe nature mathemtaically?
xoxoxoHow do we explain the plurality of things found in nature?
-Western Philosphy Began in the 6th Century BCE in Ancient Greece.
- Everyone was trying to understand the very basic essence of the world.
- Everything was rational; fiction and myth was rejected immediately.
MILESIAN SCHOOL:
- The first Philosophers came from Miletus.
- Thales came up with the conclusion that water was the element where everything had come from.
PYTHAGOREANISM:
- Pythagoras made this philosophy.
- It was aimed at numbers, but also telling others about a harmonious life.
EPHESIAN SCHOOL:
- Heraclitus thought that the primary substance is fire. It begins in fire and ends in fire.
ELEATIC SCHOOL:
- Xenophanes declared God as the central form of eternal unity.
PLURALIST SCHOOL:
- Empedocles made the philosophy where in all elements are important to human kind but he added that of love as unity and strife as separation.
ATOMIST SCHOOL:
- Leucippus was the first to make the materialistic ways; Democritus was his student.
SOPHISM:

- Apprehension of the senses is their basis.