Greek thought history

First theoretical philosophers emerged in?

Sixth century BC (500 BC)

Philosophers emerged in Greek cities of?

Ionia

Ionians sought what to explain nature?

Physical

The hidden reason was that the world can be?

Investigated with logic

Who studies the universe?

Cosmologist

What is the cosmos?

Structure that is a way of being built as beauty and in its orderly

What does not use myth?

Philosophy

Philosophers and law makers used what to understand things?

Reason and Nature

What comes out of philosophy?

Science

What is beginning or source?

Orgin

What is the way something is built?

Structure

What is everything something has or contains?

Contents

4 qualities of basic substance

One, external, natural (material), physical (made of matter)

What is physical?

A materiel

What can be known by reason?

Cosmos

Greek notions of law in human affairs sparked?

Speculative thought (ideas u can’t see or touch)

What is notion

Ideas

Why were Ionian philosophers called cosmologists?

Interest in universe and held a single eternal substance

Who is the first Ionian philosopher and scientist?

Thales of Miletus

Thales of Miletus believe what is the basic element of the Universe?

Water

Thales of Miletus left out what of origins of nature?

gods

Natural philosophy is the same as?

Science

No what in philosophy or science?

Religion

Anaximander believed that what was the source of all?

The Boundless

What is the Boundless?

A material that can change into all things

Anaximenes made a transition from?

Myth to reason

Anaximenes believed that what was the reason of nature?

Air

What is anything that has mass or takes up physical space?

Matter

Why were Ionians called matter philosophers?

Because of the belief that everything came from a material substance

Cosmologists are looking for what for universe?

One source/substance/matter

Who focused on mathematical and numbers which was not material?

Pythagoras

Who focuses on logic and mental spiritual, and rejected the cosmos?

Parmenides

Who said that all matter was built of atoms which is material?

Democritus

Greek philosophers initiated what 4 scientific thoughts?

Natural explanations, mathematical, order, and logical proof

What is key Physical explanation of the world?

Natural

Greek philosophers explained that nature is a?

Rational foundation (base of logic)

Greek philosophers argued that theories (reasons) must be grounded by?

Evidence and logic

What is a medical doctor?

A physician

Physician Hippocrates argues that?

Disease has a natural cause

Who created the Hyppocratic oath?

Hippocrates

The Hypoocractuc oath was a?

Promise that doctors had to make

What was stated in the Hyppocractic Oath?

Morality of doctors, and no abortion

The truth we discover we don’t?

Discover or make up

Who were Sophists?

Teachers who traveled and taught speaking and relativism

The Sophists stopped what?

Guessing how the universe created because they thought it was impossible to know

Sophists believed what about citizens?

How they should use their logic to become better citizens and politicians

Who helped humanism and the creation of non religious schools (secular)?

Sophists

Sophists claimed that no one was a?

Slave by nature; all people were alike

What is Relativism?

the idea that right and wrong has an opinion on someone’s point of view

No matter what a person thinks it remains true for everyone is?

Objective truth

2 areas of study using reason?

Law and philosophy

what is the most serious kind of promise?

Oath

Sophists are?

Relativists (believing in no universal truth)

What is non physical and non material and mental and spiritual things?

Logic, mathematics, and numbers

What is finding the measure of numbers to a side of a triangle?

Pythagorean Theorem