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Philosophical Concepts
Philosophers
Eras of Philosophy
Arche or Primary Principle
Philosophical Schools
100

Originating Principle

Arche
100

Religious figure and cult leader

Pythagoras

100

There was a divide in this philosophical era between Idealists and Empiricists

The Pre-Modern Era

100

Thales 

Water

100

A school of philosophical thought that believed in investigation the natural world through our sense-experience

The Milesians

200

The Boundless

Apeiron

200

The Father of Philosophy

Thales

200

The earliest philosophers. Before the Ancient Era

Pre-Socratics

200

Heraclitus

Change and Logos
200

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

300

Heraclitus' unique idea of how we can know about the natural world. 

Logos

300

The Philosopher of Change

Heraclitus

300

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

300

Parmenides

Stability, fixed unchanging reality

300

Believed in that power of math and numbers. They believed that numbers had a spiritual significance 

Pythagoreans

400

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.

400
Believed that Air was the originating principle

Anaximenes

400

Philosophers of this time explored the union of reason and faith.

The Medieval Era

400

Anaximander

Apeiron or Boundless

400

What are two terms that describe the opposing answers to the Problem of the One and the many

Monism and Pluralism

500

A philosophical discipline that deals with the nature of Being. This is a subcategory of Metaphysics

Ontology

500

Argued through the use of logical prose

Melissus

500

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


500

Empedocles 

Fire, Earth, Air, and Water

500

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