The story of Philosophy started with the triumvirate of the three Milesians:

THALES ANAXIMANDER ANAXIMENES

Most popular Very good prose writer, He concluded that the
The father of Western Philosophy claimed that the fundamental substance must be
One of the seven sages (a wise man) fundamental substance of air.
He believed that the natural magnet reality is the infinite or the According to him, air holds our
is alive since it could make an object apeiron. soul together, it encompasses the
move. He believed that the earth whole world.
Reality is water. is cylindrical and is He gave a definite shape of the
He assumed that the earth is flat, suspended in space. earth by claiming that the earth
such that when you reach the edge of He was the first and other heavenly bodies are
the horizon, you will fall. philosopher to attempt to like saucers floating in the air.
Establish monopoly of the olive oil draw a map. Thus, the earth is flat and round.
trade which took him to the African
continent.
PYTHAGORAS HERACLITUS PARMENIDES
Leader of religious cult, known as He has known for the Leader of Eleatic School, from
Pythagoreans. mystical nature of his Southern Italy.
He treated philosophy in different philosophy, especially his His philosophical idea is a
way; it was a way of life. idea about change. contradiction of the idea of
He believed that philosophy and He believes that the only change.
religion are connected and merged thing that is permanent in He proposed that the only thing
into one. this world is change. that is permanent in this world is
He considers Mathematics and You cannot step twice being.
Philosophy as good for the into the same rivers.
purification of the soul.
He has the principle of the finite
(even numbers) and the infinite (odd
numbers)
The pre-socratic philosopher who use
the term LOGOS for his cosmology.
EMPEDOCLES ANAXAGORAS ZENO OF ELEA
Very interesting roster of pre-socratic He believed that Student and a loyal follower of
philosophers. whenever you divide Parmenides at around 490 B.C.
He believed himself to be immortal matter, each separated Who first used the , method of
and that he had magical powers. part will contain elements dialects in the arguments against
He was known to have cured of everything else. motion.
somebody who was comatose for 24 He contributed the idea of He pronouncing that there is
months. NOUS or the mind. motion.
He leaped into the mouth of Mt. The arrow in flight is at rest.
Etna, an active volcano in Sicily ,
Southern Italy.
He was the proponent of the notion
that reality is made up of the four
elements: air, earth, fire and water.
Monist is the term used to describe
the philosophers who believe in just
one element.

LEUCIPPUS and DEMOCRITUS

Contributed their idea that the ultimate substance that reality is made of is atoms.