Pre-Socratic Philosophers

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A study of ancient Greek philosophy from Thales of Miletus in the early 6th century BCE to Diogenes of Apollonia at the end of the 5th. Thematically, emphasis will be placed on the radical nature of the new philosophy and science, and its confrontation with traditional Olympian religion. Particular attention may be given to one of the following groups of Pre-Socratic thinkers: the early Ionian materialists, the Pythagoreans, the Eleatics, the Atomists, or the Sophists.