Thales

His dad was a traveling merchant, so his mom had to raise his siblings and him by herself most of the time but Pythagoras did travel often with his dad. He was talented in mathematics and music at a young age. He then was educated under a man named Thales, who lived nearby, and under him he studied mathematics and astronomy. When he was twenty he traveled to Egypt and Babylonia to study…

Since as early as 500 B.C. philosophers have been concerned with the examining the composition of the universe. The early Greek philosopher, Thales, argued that the world was made up of one universal thing; water. It wasn’t until Democritus and the Atomist until philosophers began to rationalize about small particles called atoms as the things that make up the universe. As time approached the 18th century, advances in the scientific method gave rise to developing processes to examine the…

Some of the most influential philosophers of all time came from Greece not surprising how many Greek philosophers there were. Greek philosophy presumably started in Miletus a Greek city with the philosopher Thales. Other important Greek philosophers included Speusippus, Plotinus, Anaximander, and most importantly Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Socrates taught philosophy on his own and tried to focus on moral and psychological questions. Plato and Aristotle…

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had arose from the grave miraculously. Evolution is not a modern idea as most would assume, but is found in the Mayan culture circa 600 BC, and in Greek philosophy of Empedocles circa 640 BC. One of the first evolutionary theories was reported by Thales of Miletus (640-546 BC) in the province of Ionia on the coast of Greece. He provides us a glimpse into ancient theories of evolution when he stated that life started in the ocean. Evolution is therefore an ancient pagan theory of how life first…

The book entitled “Sophie’s World” was written by Jostein Gaarder, who was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1952. He was an intellectual author that teaches high school Philosophy. Gaarder often writes about Philosophy and its main Contribution to the society and oneself. He published his first book in year 1986 and one of his best-sellers is the Sophie’s world that was published in year 1991. Sophie’s world is a novel that talks about a girl named Sophie who explored through the History of Western…

Presocratic philosophers, from Thales to Heraclitus, studied philosophy based upon the general Milesian pattern for approximately one-hundred years. However, Parmenides enlightened the philosophical world with a new question rather than continuing to answer the million-dollar question, “What is everything made of.” Through his radical and counterintuitive reasoning Parmenides concluded that many of the philosophical thinkers before him were unintelligible, and wasted their time asking the wrong…

encouraged the navigating of the sea, and the interaction with other societies led to intellectual discoveries. As a new civilization, and with without a dominant religion or theocratic traditions to hold them back, the Greeks flourished. From the times of Thales to Aristotle, science, art, thought, and culture overall reached heights at a tremendous rate. Eventually, overtime the fatal flaws of humans and societies began to take their toll. Myths of Gods, creation of man, and the supernatural…

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Sunlight is not available however, it can be replaced by LEDs to give the plants energy. LEDs (light emitting diodes) produce light when it conducts an electric current. The following plants are examples that have been grown in space: Arabidopsis (Thale Cress), Mizuna lettuce, Super dwarf wheat, Apogey wheat, Bassica rapa (Oilseed), Rice, Tulips, Kalanchoe (tropical flowered plant), flax, peas, radishes, garlic, cucumbers, parsley, and dill. Everyone has to use the bathroom, even in space. So…