Pre-Socratic Philosophy (PHIL 481.001 12239) An in-depth seminar on themes and thinkers of the era of Greek Philosophy before Socrates, (b. 470 - d. 399 BCE). Writing intensive.

Kant, Socrates—those people were philosophers; you’re someone who reads or thinks about philosophy.” He felt that by calling myself a philosopher, I would be putting on airs, claiming to be ...

Socrates was concerned with this life and how best to live it Our series continues with a man who changed the course of philosophical thinking. We do not know exactly what Socrates himself ...

Daniel Graham is an ancient philosophy professor at Brigham Young University. Science Before Socrates is his attempt to bestow belated credit upon the pre-Socratics.

The dichotomy between truth and appearance, and the devaluation of appearance, is rooted in pre-Socratic philosophy. Just as Plato leant upon Heraclitus’ flux for his conception of the sensible ...

Empedocles was one of the philosophers whom historians lump together under the title of the pre-Socratics, that is, the natural philosophers who lived before Socrates of Athens and his disciple Plato.

Daniel W. Graham, the A. O. Smoot Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University, has received a contract from Cambridge University Press to produce a bilingual text of the Presocratic ...

But we do know the first written evidence of thought experiments comes from ancient Greece, where pre-Socratic philosophers used them to solve math equations.

Anaximander is one of the most popular pre-Socratic philosophers who argued that the origin is boundless and the boundless has no origin. Unlike Thales, he felt that the earth floated free in the ...