GREEK PHILOSOPHY BEGINNINGS:
GREEK PHILOSOPHY BEGINNINGS: Early philosophers sought the basic ingredients of the world we live in and posed the following question: At a fundamental level is the world made out of water, or air, or fire, or earth, or a combination of some/ all of these or something else entirely? ELEMENTALISTS: (NATURAL THEOLOGY) THALES: Only two sayings are recorded of Thales of Miletus, traditionally the founding father of Greek philosophy. 1. They illustrate the mixrure of science and religion [1] , a. for one of them was ‘All things are full of gods’ , b. and the other was ‘Water is the first principle of everything’ . Even in antiquity people found it hard to understand Thales’ adoption of water as the ultimate principle of explanation a. The earth, he said, rested on water like a log floating in a stream—but then, asked Aristotle,...