Philosophy 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Monism, Eleatics, Melissus Of Samos
10 Sep 2013
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Plato (427-347), aristotle (384-322), death of alexader the great, start of hellenistic. Homer & hesiod (9th c bce): explanations of the world, human-centric (human in form, all gods, monsters, etc. ) Things happen in world due to will of the gods. Do empirical research, use your senses: rejection of appeals to authority, appeal to evidence and argument, two central questions: Thales (water) living things cannot grow or live without water. Anaximenes (air: anazimander indefinite, boundless, indeterminate. It must be that what is said and thought is: for to be is, whereas nothing is not. This is what i bid you to ponder. For never shall be forcibly maintained that things that are not are. No generation or destruction: before: not- being -> being. No motion: only way to create motion is to introduce non-being. Heraclitus no stability , on those stepping into rivers staying the same other and other waters flow. you can never step in the same river twice.
