Milesians Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Unit 1 Tutorials: Great Philosophers INSIDE UNIT 1 Introduction to Philosophy and the Pre-Socratics What is Philosophy? Why Study Philosophy? Cosmology and the First Philosophers The Atomistic Worldview Parmenides and the Doctrine of Permanence Heraclitus and the Doctrine of Impermanence Socrates and Dialectic Socrates: The Father of Western Philosophy The Socratic Approach Introducing Arguments Evaluation and Analysis of Arguments Evaluating an Argument in Action The Apology: A Defense of Philo...

Notes for PHIL-101 (Philosophy & the Human Being). Covers the pre-philosophical poets (Hesiod & Homer), and the Milesians (Thales, Anaximander, & Anaximenes), what the differences are between the two groups, are what the three Milesian philosophers thought of the arkhe.

Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Milesians, Xenophenes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anassagoras, Democritus, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato; plato on the soul, plato on politics, plato's view of art and love. These notes go into detail about each philosopher and what he believed.