Democritus pages 43-48

Democritus:

Born: 460 BC

Died: Age 90

Region: Western Philosophy

School: Pre-Socratic Philosophy

Main Interests: Metaphysics/mathematics/ astronomy

Democritus("chosen of the people")

*Plato is said to have disliked him so much that he wished all his books burned.

Many consider Democritus to be the "Father of Modern Science".

TERM WORDS:

Milesian School: first presocratic pholosphersd were from Miletus.

Indivisible: incapable of being divided

Materialist: believed in nothing but material things.

Immortal: living forever

Atomic Hypothesis:

The theory of Democritus and Leucippus held that everything is composed of "atoms"

Which are physically, but not geometrically, indivisible; that between atoms lies empty space; that atoms are indestructible, have always been, and always will be, in motion; that there are an infinite atoms, Democritus said "The more any indivisible exceeds, the heavier it is" .

Pre-Socratic Philosophy: Is Greek philosophy before Socrates (but includes schools contemporary with Socrates which were not influenced by him.)

*The presocratic philosopers rejected traditional mythological explanations more rational explanations. These philosophers asked questions about " the essence of things"

• From where does everything come?
• From what is everything created?
• How might we describe nature mathematically?

Immortal Soul:

Everyone needs to know that life has purpose, that death isn't the permanent end of our existence.

Afterlife is that people posses souls and at death their consciousness in the form of that soul departs from the body and heads for heaven or hell.

Chapter 5: Democritus page 43-48 NOTES:

• Why is Lego the most ingenious toy in the world?
• The Atom Theory:
• Democritus assumed that everything was built up of tiny invisible blocks, each of which was eternal and immutable. Democritus called these smallest units atoms. page 45
• The word "a-tom" means un-cuttable"
• He believe atoms were firm and solid
• When a body- a tree or an animal for instance -died and disintegrated, the atoms dispersed and could be used again in new bodies.

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Chapter 4: The Natural Philosophers

Chapter Questions:

• Is there a basic substance that everything else is made of? (Discuss)
• Has soomething always existed?
• How many realities are there and what are the perceptual mechanisms by which we know this?
• What causes change?
• Define Rationalism:

Chapter Notes:

1. Sophie's mother finds a letter for her in the mailbox. Her mother thinkd its a love letter.

2. Philosopher's Project page 32

Woman were subjugated both as females and as thinking beings.

3. The Natural Philosophers: The earlist Greek philosophers are sometimes called NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS because they were mainly concerned with nautral world and its processes.

4. The Greeks marveled at how live fish could come from water. page 33

5. Natural philosophers took the first step in the direction of scientific reasoning. page 33

6. Three Philosophers from MILETUS:

Thales= wateras source of life

Anaximander= Divine Matter- infinite

Anaximenes= Air as the source of life

7. Nothing can come from nothing:

Three Milesian philosophers all believed in the existence of a single basic substance as the source of all things.

8. the most important philosophers was Parmendides.

Parmendides thought that everything that exists has always existed. That idea was not alien to the Greeks. Nothing could become anything other than it was. page 36

9. "I will believe it when I see it" page 36

10. Four Basic Elements:

Parmendies said:

a) that nothing can change

b) that our sensory perceptions must therefore be unreliable

Heraditus said

a) that everything changes

b) that our sensory perceptions are reliable

Sophie decided that philosophy was not something you can learn but perhaps something you can llearn to think philosophically. page 42