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What is the #arge of the #physis? #presocratics
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Natural philosophers are also called Pre socratics because...
It's impossible to know why
Socrates is often considered the first great philosopher
Concerns about nature came before moral concerns
Their line of thought is different from the one of Socrates
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How are the earliest Greek philosophers called according to their main concern?
Moral philosophers
Natural philosophers
Presocratics
Wise men
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How did philosophy begin in Greece?
Just by accepting what the authority transmitted
Free citizens had time to devote to culture and politics
Development of thought to one based on experience and reason
Doubt of supernatural explanations
4
What is the name of this band?
Boogie wonderland
Earth, Wind and Fire
Jackson five
Bee Gees
5
Everything is built up by atoms, thought
Anaximander
Anaxagoras
Anaximenes
Democritus
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Where did philosophy as we know it begin?
Egypt
Greece
India
Norway
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The main question for natural philosophers was
What is our purpose in life?
What is good?
What is the arge (origin) of the physis (nature)?
Do gods exist?
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Our world is only one of a myriad of worlds that evolve and dissolve in the boundless, thought
Heraclitus
Parmenides
Anaximander
Thales
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Our senses give us an incorrect picture of the world since there's no actual change, thought
Anaximenes
Heraclitus
Anaximander
Parmenides
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What is a myth?
Nonsense
A supernatural explanation of natural phenomena
A religious based explanation about the origin of nature
A logical explanation about natural phenomena
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Who thought that constant change (flux) was the most basic characteristic of nature?
Anaximander
Thales
Hercalitus
Parmenides
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Who thought that the origin of everything is air?
Anaximenes
Parmenides
Thales
Heraclitus
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Name the three philosophers of Miletus
Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
Thales, Anaximenes, Anaximander
Descartes, Plato, Anaximander
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Who believed that the source of all things was water?
Anaximenes
Thales
Anaximander
Heraclitus
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If you add
what
element to the name of the band it becomes
which
philosopher's theory
nous, Anaxagoras
water, Empedocles
soul, Parmenides
fire, Heraclitus
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Who believed that nature is built up of an infinite number of particles invisible to the eye?
Empedocles
Anaxagoras
Heraclitus
Parmenides
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Philosopher famous for criticizing Homer's mythology because the gods resembled humans too much
Parmenides
Thales
Heraclitus
Xenophanes
