pre-socratic philosophy

• Miletus


  A province in Ionia (a Greek colony in Asia Minor)
• Pre-socratic philosophy 


  A rational explanation on the origin of the world and other physical Thales phenomenona
• What did the Ionians establish?

  A more naturalistic explanation on the origin of things.
• The Ionians were the first to earn the title as "philosophers"
• Thales of Miletus

  Said that the cosmos was made up of water
• Anaximander

  believed that the first principle of things was APEIRON
• Anaximenes

  Air was the first principle of things
• Heraclitus

  Fire was the first principle.
• The doctrine of universal change


  Considered as one of Heraclitus' primary contributions to the pre-Socratic thought