Philosophors Early Days - Unit 1

Description of terms

Anaximandor

Something infinite (simple) - (610 - 546 BC)

Anaximenes

Air (souls bond, air of breath) - (610 - 546 BC)

Thales

Water - ( 624 - 545 BC)

Pythagoras

Numbers (nature = math) - (500 - 490 BC)

Heraclitus

Fire (energy, logos, never step into same river twice) - (535 - 475 BC)

Empedocles

Water, Fire, Air and Earth (peace) - (490 - 434 BC)

Parmenides

One God (real cannot come from not real, being cannot come from non-being) - (515 - 450 BC)

Anaxagoras

At some point the universe existed in a state of disorganization - (500 - 428 BC)

Hylo

God??? ( came from beginning)

Nous

Eternal God??? (came before Hylo, finest and purest)