29 Сен. 2008 - 02:59 | Автор: Оксана Александровна
Ancient Greek Philosophy. Part 1.
Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers.
The pre-Socratic philosophers rejected traditional mythological explanations for the phenomena they saw around them in favor of more rational explanations. Many of them asked:
- From where does everything come?
- From what is everything created?
- How do we explain the plurality of things found in nature?
- How might we describe nature mathematically?
The Milesian school
was a school of thought founded in the 6th Century BC. The ideas associated with it are exemplified by three philosophers from the Ionian town of Miletus,...
