History of philosophy
· Parmenides fl. Fifth Century BC
Being beings
- Thinking and Being are the same
- One cannot think not-Being
· Zeno of Elea 490-439 BC
Student of Parmenides
- Paradoxes
We tend to interpret the moving in terms of the static (living/dead) Being/beings.
Dialectics
Reductio and absurdum. Showing that a proposition when taken to its logical conclusion is
results in and absurdity.
Empedocles 490-430 BC
Four Classical Elements: Fire, Earth, Air, Water
· Bound together by Love, kept apart by Strife.
· Claimed to remember past lives.
Anaxagoras 500-428 BC
A philosopher of Athens.
· Things are made up of seeds, the character of things is determined by these seeds.
· Like and unlike are separated through the agency of nous (mind).
A friend of Pericles, but after Pericles death he was accused of heresy for claiming that the sun
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