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This 3 page paper discusses the presocratic philosophers, and the way their lives and work are discussed in the book, "The Presocratic Reader." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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7th century BCE" (Stamatellos, 1997). The first philosophical thought "in the Ancient Greek world" is that of the Ionian school in Miletos (Stamatellos, 1997). The main question engaging the Presocratic
philosophers appears to be the natural world: "The presocratics combined ancient Greek mythology with rational thinking and sought all the forces which compose nature. The natural presocratic philosophers explored the
chief cause of the creation of the world, as well as all those forces on which the universe and humanity itself are founded" (Stamatellos, 1997). These philosophers lived and taught
"in Asia Minor, in Thrace, in Sicily and in South Italy" (Stamatellos, 1997). The presocratic philosophers "spread with their thought, the wings of civilization and philosophy" (Stamatellos, 1997). They were
interested in various subjects that were of such importance that they are still considered today; these subjects include the "concepts of substance ... infinity ... power, numbers, motion, Being, Atom
and space-time" (Stamatellos, 1997). Not only are these concepts still important, but insofar as they can be understood, we use them daily. Socrates studied the earlier philosophers; his education
was based on their thinking (Stamatellos, 1997). But Socrates added something to the earlier philsophers thinking: he "gave philosophy for the first time an anthropocentric, or human-centered, character" (Stamatellos, 1997).
Before Socrates, this characteristic was missing, and the addition of it is so striking that it sets Socrates apart from the philosophers who went before-hence the term "presocratic" (Stamatellos, 1997).
Socrates influenced Plato and Aristotle; recall that he was influenced by presocratic philosophers, and in that sense, presocratic thought had enormous influence on "the whole Greek and western civilization" (Stamatellos,
1997). Among the presocratic philosophers are such people as Thales, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitus and Anaximander (Stamatellos, 1997). The Presocratic Reader, among other things, offers "sketches" of the lives of
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