Pre-Socratic philosophy
198The Pre-Socratics
15 Jul 2024
1:52¶ 8
“Moving on, we have been looking at the presocratics, who were by and large Milesian and Ionian. That is they came from what we…”
2:22¶ 9
“Thales said, “All is water,” and Anaximenes said, “All is air,” and Anaximander said, “All is…” and he uses a word ‘apeiron,’ which means…”
2:44¶ 10
“As we saw last time, a number of modern historians, having praised these gentlemen to the skies, then turn around and point out some…”
197Rational and Religious
1 Jul 2024
1:02¶ 3
“Wow, you snuck that one in there real good. Well, what happens is something that historians and philosophers have labeled the presocratics. It sounds…”
2:38¶ 6
“You’re right, presocratic is a name given by men of the Enlightenment and those who followed, because Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are their great…”
13:58¶ 43
“We don’t know a lot, but they keep talking about God. They keep talking about divinity, and not as something they’re rejecting. Yes, they…”
196Greek Life
17 Jun 2024
33:33¶ 117
“So the Greek philosophers, the pre-Socratics who followed, began to try to wrestle with this. It’s not that they rejected deity, that they rejected…”
33:54¶ 119
“Yes. They had slid so far from the idea of deity that the philosophers couldn’t handle them. So that’s the direction we need to…”
133Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 5) - By What Other Standard?
29 Aug 2022
10:23¶ 28
“And about that same time. I need to give you a copy of my book on Greek philosophy and all that, because one thing…”
11:25¶ 30
“Then from the presocratics, who were extremely religious, to say that they were naturalists is to completely misunderstand Greek culture and Greek philosophy, but…”
11:46¶ 31
“Then in comes Socrates, who still claims to be demon-possessed, and then we have Plato, who sounds a lot like he read Moses. The…”