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    Greek Philosophies

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    The Ancient Greek philosophers have played a pivotal role in the shaping of the western philosophical tradition. This article surveys the seminal works and ideas of key figures in the Ancient Greek philosophical tradition from the Presocratics to the Neoplatonists. It highlights their main philosophical concerns and the evolution in their thought from the sixth century BCE to the sixth century CE. The Ancient Greek philosophical tradition broke away from a mythological approach to explaining the

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    nature of man  Philosophers ask questions and these questions try to understand the metaphysical and physical world of man. Early Philosophers 1. Thales (624-526 BC)     He lived in the city of Miletus‚ in Ionia‚ now western Turkey He was not only a thinker; he was involved in business and politics He gave naturalistic explanations of the world Thales assumed that some single element which contained its own principle of action or change‚ lay at the foundation of all physical reality and this element

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    Contributions of the Six Giants Thales of Miletus * He founded the geometry of lines‚ so is given credit for introducing abstract geometry. * Developed the first general theorems in geometry. * He was the first to demonstrate the truth of geometric relationship by showing that it flowed in a logical and orderly fashion from a set of universally accepted axioms called postulates Pythagoras

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    PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY Introduction As early Greek civilization grew more complex (c. 500 b.c.e.)‚ mythology and religion began to develop into philosophy (and later into science). As part of this development‚ a new kind of thinker emerged known as a sophos‚ from the Greek word for “wise.” These “wise men‚” and they were almost exclusively men‚ asked increasingly sophisticated questions about all sorts of things‚ especially natural processes and the origins and essence of life. Although mythology

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    Pythagoras of Samos is often described as the first pure mathematician. He is an extremely important figure in the development of mathematics yet we know relatively little about his mathematical achievements. Unlike many later Greek mathematicians‚ where at least we have some of the books which they wrote‚ we have nothing of Pythagoras’s writings. The society which he led‚ half religious and half scientific‚ followed a code of secrecy which certainly means that today Pythagoras is a mysterious figure

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    Iliad Book1 Agamemnon takes Chryseis the daughter of chryses after the achaens sack a Trojan-allied town and capture two beautiful women. Then chryses ask for his daughter back offering a ransom but was refused. He then prays to Apollo for help and Apollo listens and sends plague to the camp causing many deaths. After 10 days of suffering Achilles calls assembly and ask for deity to tell why its happening. Calchas the seer told that he needs to return chryses‚ but Agamemnon became angry and would

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    Who Discovered Electricity ? From the writings of Thales of Miletus it appears that Westerners knew as long ago as 600 B.C. that amber becomes charged by rubbing. But other than that‚ there was little real progress until the English scientist William Gilbert in 1600 described the electrification of many substances and coined the term "electricity" from the Greek word for amber. As a result‚ Gilbert is called the father of modern electric power. In 1660‚ Otto von Guericke invented a crude machine

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    accurate‚ their theories did lead to the formulation of better explanations of the phenomena of change and motion. The first of the pre-Socratic philosophers to touch on the topic of change was Heraclius of Ionia. Much like his monistic predecessors Thales‚ Anaximander‚ and Anaximenes‚ Heraclitus first sought to answer the question of what the world was made of. The search for that answer led him to his own question‚ “How can the one change into the many?” (Jones‚ pg. 14) It didn’t make sense that if

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    field of geometry is called a geometer. Geometry arose independently in a number of early cultures as a body of practical knowledge concerning lengths‚ areas‚ and volumes‚ with elements of a formal mathematical science emerging in the West as early as Thales (6th Century BC). By the 3rd century BC geometry was put into an axiomatic form by Euclid‚ whose treatment—Euclidean geometry—set a standard for many centuries to follow.[1] Archimedes developed ingenious techniques for calculating areas and volumes

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    and demands a single explanation‚ which is philosophy. The explanation which philosophy offers is what must be the case in order for something to be as it is. Thales was an astronomer who was the first to predict an eclipse of the sun in 585 B.C. Thales said that the universe is one thing which was water‚ or matter. Thales lived in Miletus‚ then part of Greece and now present day Turkey. Herakleitos said there were four basic elements which were fire‚ water‚ earth‚ and air in balance. Herakleitos

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