PHI 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Milesian School, Anaximander, Theogony

• School: St. John's University
• Department: PHI - PHILOSOPHY
• Course: PHI 1022
• Professor: Harrison Fluss

Document Summary

What is philosophy: philosophy starts in wonder when humans question the world around them, what are things like- metaphysical, metaphysical- questions about nature of reality, how can we know things- epistemology, epistemology- question of the possibility of knowledge. Caveat about metaphysics: metaphysics in philosophy is not what is usually advertised in metaphysical shops . The first philosophers: philosophical vs. poetic views of the world, mythological vs. scientific explanation, homer"s iliad and odyssey, hesiod"s theogony(origin story of the gods) The presocratics: preceded socrates, first presocratics were from miletus, first of these philosophers were called milesians or ionians, miletus was thriving venter of commerce and cosmopolitan ideas. Anaximander: 610-546 b. c: younger contemporary of thales from miletus, argued that basic stuff wasn"t water or any specific substance, but what he called the. Boundless : also known as the apeiron (without end) Attempts to explain change: heraclitus and parmenides: second wave of presocrates, heraclitus(535-475 b. c. ) from ephesus.