Philosophical Concepts
Originating Principle
Religious figure and cult leader
Pythagoras
There was a divide in this philosophical era between Idealists and Empiricists
The Pre-Modern Era
Thales
Water
A school of philosophical thought that believed in investigation the natural world through our sense-experience
The Milesians
The Boundless
Apeiron
The Father of Philosophy
Thales
The earliest philosophers. Before the Ancient Era
Pre-Socratics
Heraclitus
A school of thought that believed in using the requirements of logic and pure rationality to arrive at truth. Also believed that real change was an impossibility.
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 more focused on personal perspective and experience. They were skeptical of the philosophy that had been established before them.
The Modern Era
Parmenides
Stability, fixed unchanging reality
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
Philosophers of this time explored the union of reason and faith.
The Medieval Era
Anaximander
Apeiron or Boundless
What are two terms that describe the opposing answers to the Problem of the One and the many
Monism and Pluralism
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. They were concerned with questions of being
The Ancient Era
Empedocles
Fire, Earth, Air, and Water
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