WorksheetsTest 2 Philosophers
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 21mins
This group of philosophers was most interested in figuring out what single substances forms the basic material of the world.
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He was born in Miletus in Asia Minor about 640 B.C. He was considered as the first of philosophers.
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He believed in monism- he held that only one substance existed in the universe, the first principle is Water.
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Thales of miletus
Heraclitus of ephesus
Most important philosopher of the Miletian school of Thales.
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He sought the primary substance of the universe, a substance which we could not contact by experience, which he called “The Boundless” – Apeiron
Thales of miletus
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Heraclitus of ephesus
Pythagoras
The substance of everything was air and he introduced the Idea of Condensation and Rarefaction.
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when air condensed=wind, cloud, water, earth and finally stones and when rarefied can become FIRE.
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most quoted words are “you can’t step in the river twice” and “Everything changes but change itself.”
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A Greek philosopher and mathematician who invented the Pythagorean Theorem.
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He espoused a complex doctrine involving ontology- the question of what things must exist possibly exist, and in what ways things can exist.
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A disciple of Parmenides, Zeno is most famous for “Zeno’s Paradox.” In this paradox, Zeno pointed out that by strict rules of logic, movement across space should not be possible. However, from observation, it was clear that things did move.
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they refuted the Milesian’s theories and argued that matter was made of many different substances.
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Held that things were ultimately made of our roots- earth, fire, air and water, which eternal and intrinsically immutable.
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He was the first philosopher to introduce the notion of “mind” as the efficient cause of motion.
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These philosophers were deterministic and materialistic in their view of the universe, holding that material objects of motion could explain all existence. They suggested all matter could be broken down into indivisible units called atoms.
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The void was postulated by him in order to explain the motion of atoms.
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held as a rather cynical group that rejected idealism in favor of expediency, skepticism, relativism, and personal gain.
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most famous for his statement of “Homo Mensura” i.e., “Man is the measure of all things.” He claims that everything was relative to human subjectivity.
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or Classical Period of the Old time of Philosophy signifies the Greek counterparts and close to peers of the compelling scholar Socrates.
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was well known for his case that he didn't know anything. He composed no books, yet his understudy Plato recorded his discussions.
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is, by any reckoning, one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy.
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numbers among the greatest philosophers of all time.
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