The "pre-socratics"

What does Jonathan Barnes mean in his prologue to The Presocratic Philosophers when he says that the Presocratic Philosophers were "rational men?"

Their conclusions are the product of reasoned arguments for others to contemplate and debate rather than simply accept or reject.

Miletus is located where

western side of present day turkey

Pythagoras was born on the isle of Samos, but it was in Croton where he established the Pythagorean cult.  where is Croton located?

The southern side of present day Italy.

Which of the following best represents when the Milesian philosophers were alive?

Early to mid 6th century (500's) BC

All three Milesian Philosophers seem to have at least one thing in common which structures their proposed insights into nature.  Which of the following marks a striking similarity between Thales, Anaximander, and Anaxemines?

All three proposed a single basic stuff that serves as the fundamental principle of all things.

Anaximander takes what seems to be a step forward from Thales by suggesting that the fundamental principle of all things is something he called apeiron.  Which of the following is a common translation of this term?

The unlimited, indefinite, and the infinite

Thales proposed that the fundamental principle of all things is _________.

water

Anaximander proposed that the fundamental principle of all things is _________

Aperion

Anaxemines proposed that the fundamental principle of all things is _________

Air

What did the Pythagoreans took the fundamental governing principle of the cosmos to be?

Mathematical Ratio

What is the Pythagorean take on "the soul?"

That it is immortal and subject to reincarnation.