How did these three pre-Socratic materialists - Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Democritus - identify the nature of ultimate reality?

What will be an ideal response?


Anaximander: the indefinite or apeiron; Heraclitus: fire; Democritus: tiny atoms.

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Hume argues that every justifiable belief must be either a "relation of ideas" or a "matter of fact."

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Descartes begins by doubting everything but the existence of God

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Immanuel kant believed in the dignity of rational beings only. while Nietzsche disagreed with him, kant maintained (as did Aristotle) that the value of humans was grounded in their ability to engage in higher reason (unlike wolves)

a. true b. false

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During the Bronze and Iron Ages, Europeans subsisted by farming supplemented by:

a. bartering and metallurgy b. horticulture and bartering c. crafts and horticulture d. crafts and mining

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