PHIL 2200 REVIEW QUESTIONS1) Etymologically‚ what does Philosophy mean? Ancient Greek: Philo – Love‚ Sophia – Wisdom/knowledge. The love of wisdom.2) What is epistemology? Theories of knowledge 3) What is ontology? The study of being.4) What is ethics? A system of moral principles.5) According to Singer‚ what are four things that ethics are not? Particularly concerned with sex An ideal system which is useless in practice Something only intelligible in context with religion Relative or Subjective
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Plato’s Universe (Chapters 1 & 2) By: Gregory Vlastos SUMMARY Vlastos begins by talking about the word cosmos and its origins. The Greek word kosmeo meaning to set in order became kosmos which had a moral connotation until the Presocratics such as Thales‚ Anaximander and Anaximenes and other physiologoi gave the word a physical application that was composed of the Earth‚ sun‚ moon‚ stars and everything in between. Heraclitus was the first person on record to use the word cosmos with its newest
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His theory stated that atoms were invisible and indestructible. Since Democritus did not really have that much technological support at the time‚ he could not elaborate on his suggestion. That’s where John Dalton came in…..2000 years later. Dalton used experimental methods to changed Democritus’s idea into a scientific theory
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education‚ which Epicurus supplemented with his own investigation into philosophy. At the age of eighteen he came to Athens for his military service. Epicurus was highly influenced by earlier thinkers‚ especially by Cyrenaic and Democritus; he differed in a significant way with Democritus on determinism. He was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. He wrote 300 written works‚ including 37 treatises on physics and numerous works on nature‚ love‚ gods
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a particle physicist as he or she conducts his or her experiments in the particle accelerator. This chapter Dr. Lederman gives a brief background story of what led him to particle physics. Chapter 2: In a fictional dream‚ Dr. Lederman meets Democritus‚ an ancient Greek philosopher who lived during the Classical Greek Civilization and has a conversation with him. The conversation is actually in the form of a Socratic dialogue. The two have an informative dialogue about physics.
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The History of Atomic Theory Atomos: Not to Be Cut The atomic model has changed throughout the centuries starting in 400 BC‚ when it looked like a billiard ball. Democritus: 400 BC The question: Can matter be divided into smaller particles? Or can it be infinitely divided? Matter can be divided into the smallest piece‚he named it “atomos”: not to be cut. Said that atoms were small‚ hard particles that were all made of the same material but were different shapes and sizes. Atoms were
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1.8 Creationism argument In this chapter we want to discuss about a subject which is more necessary than previous subjects and it is “creation of the universe”. We want to proof that this world need a creator. This subject is important because of two reasons; first of all‚ it is a challenging issue for most of the people and there are some beliefs about that as Unitarian beliefs. Second aspect is in-troduct0ion of some new issues and discusses about the creation of the universe by science‚ it is
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the atomic structure were introduced over time. These theories changed as a result of development of different experiments. Leucippus was the first to introduce the theory of atomism‚ however he didn’t write about his theories in detail. However‚ Democritus‚ his student wrote about the theory of atoms in detail. He theorised that everything was composed of atoms and that atoms are solid and indestructible. He also had a theory that there’s a relation between the solidness of the material and the type
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not have discovered the other properties of the atom. Some may disagree‚ stating that Dalton was not the individual who originally formed the atomic theory. The may argue that Democritus was the most imperative person‚ since he was the one who stated that‚ “everything is composed of atoms.” For this may be true‚ Democritus merely stated this theory as a philosophical idea‚ while Dalton actually had done research to prove his claim. Dalton had done experiments‚ such as studying the different properties
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Philosophy emerged as an alternative or innovative type of thinking that harbored a path towards logical reasoning rather than following stories of religions and deities. Greek philosophers began to contemplate the world and the ideas behind it which led to experimentation‚ discovery‚ and further questions and understanding. Greek philosophers such Pythagoras‚ Socrates‚ Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and others paved the way for advances in science‚ logic‚ reasoning‚ mystic beliefs‚ mathematics‚ moral and ethical
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