The Presocratic Philosophers

Question 1

What did Heraclitus say about change:

(3 points)

Answer 1

-Things are constantly changing, the only constant thing is change itself

-You are not the same from one minute to the next

-“you cannot bath twice in the same river”

Question 2

Heraclitus uses what analogy:

Answer 2

Bio is life, but its results/creation is death

Question 3

What are the two types of change that Heraclitus proposes?

Answer 3

There are two types of change:

-Transformation:
-Transforming over a lifespan
-Through the contradiction between identity and difference

Generation:
-Being and not being (nothingness)

Question 4

What does fire (arche for Heraclitus) represent to Heraclitus?

Answer 4

A source of benefit but also a source of danger, always changing and never the same

Question 5

Parmenides:

(3 points)

Answer 5

-Being is one and unchanging
-There is being and not being nothing in between
-Distinction between essential truth and a world of illusion/opinion