Presocratics
Exercise
A. Using only your own
observations and reasonings about them (i.e., without using any body of
scientific tradition), give an account which explains both of the following
cycles:
1.
Day/Night
2.
Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter
Provide illustrations.
B. Using only your own
observations of events in the world, human actions and interactions, and your
reasonings about them (i.e., without using any moral or religious tradition),
answer the following questions:
1.
Why do bad
things happen to bad people?
2.
Why do bad
things happen to good people?
3.
Why do good
things happen to good people?
4.
Why do good
things happen to bad people?
C. Combine with other group(s) and
create a single model to account for both A and B and present to the class.
Out of Class Follow-Up Exercise
Now look up some of the Pre-Socratic
Philosophers and explain
1.
Their
divergence from mythological explanations
2.
their
preoccupation with fundamental principles (the arche)
3.
their
tendency to criticize (sometimes ferociously) their fellow inquirers