early greeks
Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Pythagoreans, Zeno
Explain why change and multiplicity became the starting problems; distinguish flux, monism, and paradox.
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atomists, sophists, socrates
Atomists, Sophists, Socrates, early Plato
Connect atomism to determinism, Sophism to relativism, and the Socratic method to conceptual inquiry.
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plato
Forms, particulars, the Good, divided line, cave, soul, ethics, organic state
Reconstruct Forms, particulars, the Good, divided line, cave, soul, ethics, and organic state.
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aristotle
realism, knowledge, definitions, change, psyche, senses, ethics, politics
Explain Aristotle's answer to Forms, axioms, definitions, potentiality/actuality, and four causes; connect form/matter, Prime Mover, sensory evidence, virtues, ultimate good, and state.
hellenistic schools
Epicurus, Stoics, Skeptics, Plotinus
Explain how later schools responded to instability, desire, determinism, skepticism, and religious Platonism.
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phase problem
Can change, multiplicity, and objective knowledge coexist?
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