PHL105Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Viktor Frankl, Analytical Psychology, The Principle
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Zeno argued that a runner cannot move from one point to another. Thales: he was the first to take a radically new philosophical approach to reality. He believed that the ultimate reality of which everything was made is of water. He tried to approach reality through a different way other than through the works of gods. Democritus: greek philosopher who believed that reality could be explained in terms of matter. The smallest piece of matter, he called atoms; he described them as solid, indivisible, indestructible, eternal and uncreated. He believed that the universe consisted of atoms and empty space. He believed that even the soul consisted of atoms. Parmenides: proposed a theory that held change is an illusion and that the universe in reality is a frozen, unchanging object. He argued that nothingness or non being cannot be real because we cannot even think of nothingness. For something to change, it must change into something that did not exist before.
