Questioning The Mythological World View
Philosophy began by questioning the mythological world view of how humanity was created.
Read morePhilosophy began by questioning the mythological world view of how humanity was created.
Read moreThe earliest Greek philosophers are called the Natural Philosophers because they were concerned with the natural world and its processes.
Read moreMiletus, a Greek colony in Asia Minor on the coast of modern-day Turkey, was the birthplace of three Natural Philosophers.
Read moreParmenides (c. 540 – 480 BC), from a Greek colony in southern Italy, believed that everything had always existed.
Read moreHeraclitus (c. 540 – 480 BC), was from Ephesus in Asia Minor and believed nature was in constant change.
Read moreAnaxagoras (c. 510 – c. 428 BC) was a philosopher who believed nature was built from several elements.
Read moreDemocritus (c. 460 – 370 BC) was from Thrace in Northern Greece and he created the term Atom.
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