Pre-Socratics

Questions:

What is Reality?

What is permanent in existence?

What is the primary matter or stuff?

Basic similarity of the Many related by the One?

Answers:

Thales – Water

Anaximander – Boundless

Anaximanenes – Air

Pythagoras – Numbers/Figures & Arts: music/medicine

Central theme (harmony/body in tune)

Heraclitus - Change

Books of interest

R. G. Collingwood The Idea of Nature

W. T. Jones The Classical Mind

The Presocratics edited by Philip Weelwright