Describe the philosophical concerns of the pre-Socratic philosophers
How did their views differ from each other?
Thales believed the primal element of the universe was water, whereas Anaximenes thought it was air; and Heraclitus said fire because "All is change."
- Democritus said all matter in the universe was composed of indivisible atoms.
- Anaxagoras anticipated modern cosmology in proposing that the entire universe is composed of matter in motion.
- Pythagoras believed the fundamental principles of the universe were mathematical relations.
- Parmenides believed in a necessary, static, unchanging unity running throughout all of what is in flux in the world of experience.
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