PHI 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, Classical Element
2 Feb 2016
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Hesoid: theogony (poem about the birth of the gods: greeks thought gods spoke through these poets (written by, greeks looked to homer and hesoid for instructions from the. Materialism = all that exists is material or physical. Believers of natural philosophy they believed in natural explanations for phenomena. Tried to discover principles that could consistently and comprehensively explain all natural phenomena and events in human life without resorting to mythology. He selects water perhaps because it has properties which enable all the people of his time and our time to experience water in three different states: liquid, solid and gas. Now if one thing such as water can exist in three very different forms then there must be something , like water, that is the basic into air. All reality, all that exists in the universe is made of or composed of or manifests as: energy.
