TRUE & FALSE 1. Zeno, Miletus, and Elea are presocratic philosophers. 2. The presocratics were introduced to, but rejected, early Christianity. 3. Believing something because you want it to be true is the same as believing something on the basis of evidence. 4. The presocratics broke decisively from their predecessors. 5. According to Thales, all is air. 6. Anaximander sees changes in the world like they are a type of justice being served. 7. Zeno’s paradoxes were regarded as trivial by those who came after him. 8. The aim of the “two rows” or “blocks” paradox is to show that motion is impossible. 9. Parmenides argues that there is one fundamental kind of change. 10. The Milesians adopt a common strategy, differing only in how they carry it out. * 1. On Plato’s view, a shadow of a feather is more real than the feather. 2. Plato’s metaphysical ideas can be summed up in the phrase “seeing is believing.” 3. Plato says that there are some things that last forever. 4. The parable of the cave illustrates the way Plato understands the learning process. 5. Plato’s line in the simile of the line is divided into four equal parts. 6. The shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave represent the forms. 7. A realist believes that there are mind-independent entities, while an idealist does not. 8. Plato is a realist. 9. Forms are the entities that Plato believes to exist, and this is why he should be considered a realist. 10. Plato’s solution to the problem of change might be seen as resolving a conflict between the Milesians and the Eleatics. * *
Presocratics page 90-everything is water * `Passage 85 * part c-relate to problem of change
Page 145 * Passage 141-eveything is air- “infinite air was the principle, from which the things that are becoming, and that are and that shall be and the gods and things divine , all come into being, and that the rest from it products. The form of air of this kind. * part c-relate to problem of change * * A-passage-qoute- with title and page number * B-explain main ideas of passage
Begin with a definition or the most important point that the passage says try to picture the early Greek civilization around 600 BC. Imagine yourself in a flourishing commercial town at the sunny coast of Ionia. The Greeks traded intensively with each other and with surrounding nations, thus many Greek city states accumulated considerable wealth and with it came art, science, and philosophy. However, there was trouble.
3-5 sentences in which you include minor details with examples. * Water changing, water is indestructible. * C- Realate (part c-relate to problem of change and explain what it is—cant stop it from happinging, we want something stable..) to a larger issue above—thought was untimely made of..
Water will always be here..
How does it connect from larger issues list
Agree or disagree

The problem of change: what is it? the instability and impermanence (change) of the visible world can be disturbing—it can threaten one’s sense of well-being. But change occurs constantly.
In order to feel and believe one’s self to be safe from the instabilities and decay in the visible world, a person wants to find some source of stability, something that never changes.
Plato’s solution to the problem.
In the intelligible world, there is no change.
The instability is limited to the visible world.
The ultimate change—passage from life to death—results in one’s passage from the flux of impermanence into the realm of reality, where nothing changes at all. *
Fact Change is inescapable and distressful. Hope There is something that survives change, something that is constant through change.
Project Discover or verify that there is something that survives changes.
A child grows from being small to being larger; but there is some sense in which it makes sense to say that he or she remained the same throughout all of his or her growth.
For instance, we don’t think that the child stops having a size as its smallness “leaves” and its largeness “enters.”
SOLUATION TO CHAnge
Anaximenes proposes an alternative theory: rather than water (Thales) or the indefinite (Anaximander), Anaximenes theory is that everything is composed of air..The idea is that different states and configurations of bits of air give rise to the various objects of the world.Rocks, for instance, are very dense bits of air. Water is air of medium density.
Fire is very fine air.Anaximander’s view is that the air persists through change.That is, when we experience change, what we are experiencing is the change in density of the air that makes up the objects of the world.Change is seen as always occurring by the motions of the air, so that the air is always and forever compressing and de-compressing to form objects of different types.The Milesian philosophers attempt to solve the problem of change by proposing theories according to which there is some kind of stuff that remains constant through changes.These theories are philosophical theories (as opposed to superstitions or stories) because they are intended to be judged according to how reasonable they are to believe.The theories may be summarized as follows.Thales Everything is composed of water. Anaximander Everything is composed of a substancecalled “the indefinite.” Anaximenes Everything is composed of air.

Recall the problem of change: we always see a changing scene; it appears that nothing is constant—but it still seems to us that there must be something constant behind it all.Thales’ theory that everything is water is meant to solve this problem by suggesting that water is what remains constant in a thing as it changes.The idea is that everything is composed of water, which takes different forms in each object. Each change in a thing represents a change in the properties of the water of which it is formed * Philosophy Midterm exam *
Explain. agree or disagree *
“Platoe resolved a debate between the milision and the aleatics.” * What was the dispute?-PROBLEM OF CHANGE.. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM OF CHANGE GIVE AN EXAMPLE_CHANGE IS ALWAYS HAPPENING_PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE__TRANSITION FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO COLLEGE AND PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH
Milesians
a. WHAT DO THEY THINK ABOUT CHANGE (Think there is chnge) i. The Milesians attempt to understand the world in terms of a basic stuff. Their ii. project assume that change is possible, for the basic stuff changes into (becomes) everything else. Change certainly seems to occur, and in particular, things appear to change from not-being into being, and back again – they come to be, and they perish; changes in existence. But it is very difficult to explain how these changes happen iii. WHAT IS THEIR VIEW LIKE..PICK ON MILEASIAN –CONSIDER THALES VIEW---EVERYTHING IS WATER.EXPLAIN HOW THAT VIEW WORK iv. Beliefs and arguments____What was their side___Eleatics____What was their side?__PLatoe’s solution(your-agree/disagree)__How he solves OR DOSENT RESOLVE ISSUSE
P1 WHAT IS THE PROBLEM OF CHANGE? * P2 MILEASIN VIEWS
P3 TELIATIC VIEW
P4 PLATO SOLUTIONS *
On the Milesians’ Weak Monism, it is possible for the fundamental stuff (water, the indefinite, etc.) to undergo change.
On the Eleatics’ Strong Monism, in contrast, it is not possible for the The One to undergo change in respects significant enough to account for our experience of change.This is because, as the arguments of Parmenides suggest, any change in The One would introduce an element of non-being, which is necessarily impossible. Recall that the Milesians’ aim to show how change is possible.Their strategy is to describe some kind of “underlying stuff” such as water (Thales) that remains constant through changes.The Milesian philosophers attempt to solve the problem of change by proposing theories according to which there is some kind of stuff that remains constant through changes.These theories are philosophical theories (as opposed to superstitions or stories) because they are intended to be judged according to how reasonable they are to believe.The theories may be summarized as follows.Thales Everything is composed of water. Anaximander Everything is composed of a substance. called “the indefinite Anaximenes proposes an alternative theory: rather than
Everyone affect by change. Change is inescapleable, stressful. Hope something survives through the change.--> child grows up bus something remains stable within his personality..