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Western Philo - Coggle Diagram
Western Philo
Pre-Socratic
Four elements: Earth, Water, Air and Fire
Sophists ~ 450BC (link)
Started around 450BC in Athens
First attempt at a full-fledged philosophical doctrine
Protagoras
Considered the first sophist
Professional teachers
Despised by Plato
Because they charged fees
Because they used rhetorical sleight-of-hand
Pythagoreans ~ 500BC (link)
Believed in reincarnation
Heavily influenced by mathematics and mysticism
Transmigration of the Soul was a core belief
Were vegetarians
Heraclitus - 535-475BC (link)
"No man steps in the same river twice."
Diogenes primary biographer
Parmenides ~ 450BC (link)
Only known work was "On Nature" - a poem
Claimed that truth cannot be know through sensory perception, only through logos.
Zeno of Elea - 490-430BC (link)
Reducto ad Absurdum
Zeno's Paradox
Arhilles and the Tortoise (link)
Herodotus - 484-425BC (link)
Greek Historian
First known writer to collect and document his ideas systematically.
Thucydides - 460-395BC (link)
The Pelopomnesian War - his greatest contribution to history.
"The Father of Scientific History"
"The Father of the school of political realism"
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