Philosophical Concepts
Originating Principle
Religious figure and cult leader
Pythagoras
Philosophers in this era are concerned with establishing first philosophy and ethics apart from religion.
The Enlightenment Era
Thales of
Miletus
A school of philosophical thought that believed in investigation the natural world through our sense-experience
The Boundless
Apeiron
The Father of Philosophy
Thales
Pre-Socratics
Ephesus
A school of thought that believed in using the requirements of logic and pure rationality to arrive at truth
The Eleatics
Heraclitus' unique idea of how we can know about the natural world.
Logos
The Philosopher of Change
Heraclitus
Philosophers of this time were concerned with the darkest elements of humanity
The Modern Era
Milessus of
Samos
Believed in that power of math and numbers. They believed that numbers had a spiritual significance
Pythagoreans
Pythagoras believed in the transference of the soul from the body of one living being to the body of another after we die. We are born again as something new. This view is called?
Reincarnation.
Anaximenes
The Medieval Era
Parmenides of
Elea
A school of thought that encourages constantly calling everything into question. Never taking anything for granted
Skepticism
A philosophical discipline that deals with the nature of Being. This is a subcategory of Metaphysics
Ontology
Argued through the use of logical prose
Melissus
These philosophers wanted take philosophy from something that was an academic discipline and make it something that every individual should participate in
The Ancient Era
This philosopher was from Colophon
Xenophanes
A view that says that all the natural world is composed of one material substance and that substance gives rise to all other creation.
Material Monism