Philosophy is defined as the study of the theoretical basis of a particular branch of knowledge or experience. The book begins with the first known philosophers, Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes who were also known as the Milesians. The Milesians were the first group of people to ever question our existence, reality and the happenings of the world. Thales was born in 624 BCE and was known as the first philosopher of the Western civilization. Thales had shifted his initial views from a mythology standpoint to that of a science based way of describing the happenings of the world. He believed that everything around us was composed of a single element, which was water. Anaximander the second of the Milesian philosophers, believed that all things
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Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans based all of their philosophical findings on mathematics and believed that everything consisted of numbers. Pythagoras believed that mathematics was the ultimate way to purify the soul, he is the founder of the religion Dionysus. Pythagoreans developed the concept of form and were the first to develop the mathematical concept of the pythagorean theorem. A man by the name of Hippasus criticized the pothagreans theory however, and was killed for saying that the pythagorean theorem does not hold true in the cases of isosceles triangles. The pythagoreans went as far as saying that the human body can be explained by numbers and if we are not in sync, we fall …show more content…
The three sophists were Protagoras, Gorgias and Thrasymachus. Protagoras was the most influential of the three sophists. The sophists set out to Athens in order to make the citizens question their beliefs, moral behavior and to teach the art of rhetoric. Socrates developed he idea that a person had a soul and that we should strive to make our soul as goos as possible. Socrates left behind no writings so it is from his followers that we are able to understand his view of philosophy. He believed that people never intentionally commit bad acts and that it is ignorance that makes us believe that the unjust acts we do are good. Socrates questioned many things and was known a pest to Athenian society and was accused of corrupting the
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans based all of their philosophical findings on mathematics and believed that everything consisted of numbers. Pythagoras believed that mathematics was the ultimate way to purify the soul, he is the founder of the religion Dionysus. Pythagoreans developed the concept of form and were the first to develop the mathematical concept of the pythagorean theorem. A man by the name of Hippasus criticized the pothagreans theory however, and was killed for saying that the pythagorean theorem does not hold true in the cases of isosceles triangles. The pythagoreans went as far as saying that the human body can be explained by numbers and if we are not in sync, we fall …show more content…
The three sophists were Protagoras, Gorgias and Thrasymachus. Protagoras was the most influential of the three sophists. The sophists set out to Athens in order to make the citizens question their beliefs, moral behavior and to teach the art of rhetoric. Socrates developed he idea that a person had a soul and that we should strive to make our soul as goos as possible. Socrates left behind no writings so it is from his followers that we are able to understand his view of philosophy. He believed that people never intentionally commit bad acts and that it is ignorance that makes us believe that the unjust acts we do are good. Socrates questioned many things and was known a pest to Athenian society and was accused of corrupting the