PSY 401 1st Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Last Lecture I Philosophical Issues a Free Will vs Determinism i Libertarian View ii Determinist View 1 indeterminism 2 Fatalism iii Libet iv D Soon et al 2008 II Early Greek Philosophy and Psychology a Why Greece b Themes in Early Greek Thought i Naturalistic supernatural ii Cosmology iii Physis c Thales Outline of Current Lecture I Early Greek Philosophy and Psychology a Thales b Anaximander c Pythagoras These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute d Parmenides Current Lecture I Early Greek Philosophy and Psychology a Thales i Made philosophy practical 1 Example discovered a way to measure land by converting units b Anaximander 611 545 BCE i Physis Apeiron abstract matter ii First evolutionary theorist how the universe changes over time 1 Similar to Big Crunch Theory 2 Human development beginning as fish iii First world map inaccurate iv First to build a Sun Dial c Pythagoras 582 500 BCE i Physis Numbers 1 School of thought based on mathematical reasoning 2 Founded early university more like a group 3 Coined philosophy a Love and wisdom they are not progressing knowledge for money or power just brainstorming for the sake of knowledge 4 Early Rationalist Reason Experience 5 Progressive a Let women into the group university d Parmenides C 515 BCE i Senses vs Reason 1 Change movement is an illusion 2 In reality nothing is moving or changing ii Zeno of Elea 1 Zeno s Paradoxes a Example if you are shooting an arrow at a target you know that it will go a certain distance in a certain amount of time however you can divide the distance it needs to travel in half an infinite amount of times Therefore how could something travel an infinitely dividing distance in a finite amount of time
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