31 Facts About Pre-Socratic

Pre-Socratic philosophy, known as early Greek philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates.

Pre-Socratic philosophers were mostly interested in cosmology, the beginning and the substance of the universe, but the inquiries of these early philosophers spanned the workings of the natural world as well as human society, ethics, and religion.

Pre-Socratic philosophy began in the 6th century BCE with the three Milesians: Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes.

Pre-Socratic is a term adopted in the 19th century to refer to this group of philosophers.

Pre-Socratic philosophy encompasses the first of the three phases of ancient Greek philosophy, which spanned around a thousand years.

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Pre-Socratic is considered the first western philosopher since he was the first to use reason, to use proof, and to generalize.

Pre-Socratic created the word cosmos, the first word to describe the universe.

Pre-Socratic contributed to geometry and predicted the eclipse of 585 BCE.

Pre-Socratic is known for being the first to claim that the base angles of isosceles triangles are equal, and that a diameter bisects the circle.

Pre-Socratic attributed the origin of the world to an element instead of a divine being.

Pre-Socratic was a member of the elite of Miletus, wealthy and a statesman.

Pre-Socratic showed interest in many fields, including mathematics and geography.

Pre-Socratic drew the first map of the world, was the first to conclude that the earth is spherical, and made instruments to mark time, something like a clock.

Pre-Socratic's answer was an attempt to explain observable changes by attributing them to a single source that transforms to various elements.

Pre-Socratic proclaimed that the earth is not situated in another structure but lies unsupported in the middle of the universe.

Pre-Socratic was a younger contemporary and friend of Anaximander, and the two worked together on various intellectual projects.

Pre-Socratic was a well-traveled poet whose primary interests were theology and epistemology.

Pre-Socratic famously said that if oxen, horses, or lions could draw, they would draw their gods as oxen, horses, or lions.

Pre-Socratic moved to Croton at about age 30, where he established his school and acquired political influence.

Pre-Socratic was the first to think of the brain as the center of senses and thinking.

Pre-Socratic was the first to deduce that the earth is spherical.

Pre-Socratic tried to explain why we think various non-existent objects exist.

Pre-Socratic was associated with the Athenian statesman Pericles and, probably due to this association, was accused by a political opponent of Pericles for impiety as Anaxagoras held that the sun was not associated with divinity; it was merely a huge burning stone.

Pre-Socratic claimed it is absurd to hold that nonexistence exists, and that What-is was impossible since it had to either be generated or be unlimited and neither is sufficient.

Pre-Socratic attempted to explain both the variety and unity of the cosmos.

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Pre-Socratic addressed the need to explain how the various masses of the universe interact among them and coined the term Harmonia, a binding force that allows mass to take shape.

Pre-Socratic explains that things, even when changing shapes, remain ontologically the same.

Pre-Socratic thought contributed to the demythologization of the Greek popular religion.

Pre-Socratic philosophers did not have atheistic beliefs, but it should be kept in mind that being an atheist those days was not without social or legal dangers.

Pre-Socratic was the first to state that philosophy starts with Thales.

Pre-Socratic criticized the pre-Socratic theory of knowledge by Xenophanes and others, claiming that their deductive reasoning could not yield meaningful results—an opinion contemporary philosophy of science rejects.