Lecture # 6- Pre Socratic Greek Philosophers.pdf

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1. Pre—Socratic Period

2. Outline of Lecture
The Pre-Socrates
 Thales of Miletus (580 BC)
 Anaximander (610-546 BC)
 Anaximenes (546 BC)
 Pythagoras (572-500 BC)
 Heraclitus (525-475 BC)
 Permenides (515-440 BC)
Zeno (490 BC- ?)
 The Pluralists
 Empedocles (?-440 BC)
 Anaxagoras (500-428 BC)
 Democritus (460-370 BC)
 Conclusion

3. The Pre-Socrates

4. The Pre-Socrates

o"Pre-Socratic" is the expression
commonly used to describe
those Greek thinkers who lived
and wrote between 600 and
400 B.C.
oIt was the Pre-Socratics who
attempted to find universal
principles which would explain
the natural world from its
origins to man's place in it.

5. Thales of Miletus (580 BC)
•Thales of Miletus is regarded as the First
Philosopher of ancient Greece, the first of the
Pre-Socratic Philosophers, and the inventor of
Greek Mathematics.

6. Thales of Miletus (580 BC)

7. Thales of Miletus

8. Thales of Miletus

9. Anaximander (610-546 BC)

10. Anaximenes (546 BC)

11. Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes

12. Pythagoras (572-500 BC)

13. Heraclitus (525-475 BC)

14. Heraclitus (525-475 BC)

15. Permenides (515-440 BC)

16. Permenides (515-440 BC)

17. Permenides (515-440 BC)

18. Zeno (490 BC- ?)

19. Zeno (490 BC- ?)

20. The Pluralists

21. Empedocles (?-440 BC)

22. Empedocles (?-440 BC)

23. Anaxagoras (500-428 BC)

24. Anaxagoras (500-428 BC)

25. Democritus (460-370 BC)

26. Conclusion