Daniel W. Graham, PhD in The First Philosophers

Oct 13, 2022

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4.6 Herodotus on the Nile

Around the time the meteor fell, a young Greek tourist was traveling up the Nile River in Egypt. Armed with the…

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Daniel W. Graham, PhD in The First Philosophers

Oct 3, 2022

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3.4 Coming of Age in Athens

Socrates’ borough or deme was Alopece, located in the immediate suburbs of Athens to the southeast. In his…

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Daniel W. Graham, PhD in The First Philosophers

Oct 6, 2022

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4.3 Parmenides’ World

A turning point in the succession of cosmologies occurred when Parmenides of Elea, a Greek colony in southern Italy…

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Daniel W. Graham, PhD in The First Philosophers

Oct 10, 2022

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4.4 Anaxagoras’ Discovery

Writing after Parmenides, Anaxagoras saw the importance of his predecessor’s conception. In a month Anaxagoras…

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Daniel W. Graham, PhD in The First Philosophers

Oct 26, 2022

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5.2 The Great Sophist

Undeterred by the warning, Hippocrates is still dying to meeting the sophist, and Socrates leads him to the house of the…

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Daniel W. Graham, PhD in The First Philosophers

Oct 17, 2022

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4.8 Archelaus and Socrates

Anaxagoras left behind a student, Archelaus. Probably a native Athenian, Archelaus continued the tradition of…

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Daniel W. Graham, PhD in The First Philosophers

Oct 14, 2022

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4.7 Aeschylus and Anaxagoras

Meanwhile, back in Athens, Aeschylus wrote a play which featured both the question of the Nile’s floods and…

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Daniel W. Graham, PhD in The First Philosophers

Oct 28, 2022

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5.3 Teaching Virtue

Socrates replies to Protagoras’ claim to teach virtue that he did not think that such knowledge could be taught or…

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Daniel W. Graham, PhD in The First Philosophers

Oct 24, 2022

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5.1 The Sophists Have Come to Town

After Socrates’ voyage to Samos we hear nothing of his exploits for the next decade. We meet him…

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Daniel W. Graham, PhD in The First Philosophers

Oct 5, 2022

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4.2 Heraclitus’ World

Heraclitus of Ephesus, an important city just to the north of Miletus, meditated on the ideas of his predecessors. In…

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