Natural Fragments #

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The Natural Fragments of the First Philosophers #

reading · Presocratics 01 · 10 pages · PDF · 01-The_Natural_Fragments.pdf

Covers: Collection of Presocratic fragments (DK), from Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, through to Democritus.

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On the Natural Fragments (Natural Fragments of the First Philosophers) #

note · Presocratics 02 · 51 pages · PDF · 02-On_the_Natural_Fragments.pdf

Covers: Berquist’s commentary on the fragments of the first natural philosophers (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, through Democritus, DK 154), explaining how philosophy began in wonder and how their reasonable guesses move toward reasoned knowledge; ends with art imitating nature.

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• Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 5. Why Begin from Nature: Beginnings, Order, and Heraclitus on the Common (from 17:34) · p. 2
• Natural Hearing — 9. Thales and Anaximander: Reasonable Guesses About the First Matter (from 24:58) · p. 2
• Natural Hearing — 10. Simplicity, Pantheism and Digressions: Einstein, Hegel, Shakespeare, and Reflections on Reason (from 36:40) · p. 44
• Natural Hearing — 11. Anaximenes, Pythagoras and Heraclitus: Air, Form, and the Problem of Change (from 31:36) · p. 12
• Natural Hearing — 12. Heraclitus: Contradiction, Hidden Harmony, Strife and Fire (from 29:34) · p. 17
• Natural Hearing — 15. Empedocles’ Love and Hate, Chance vs. Mind, and Anaxagoras on Matter and the Continuous (from 50:37) · pp. 32–33
• Natural Hearing — 17. Anaxagoras on the Mind: Unlimited, Self-Ruling, and Separate (from 11:36) · p. 42
• Natural Hearing — 18. Heraclitus to the Moderns, Determinism, and Democritus’s Atoms (from 15:04) · p. 44
• Natural Hearing — 21. Anaxagoras’ Mind, Hope and Fear, and Heraclitus’ Common Ways Forward (from 9:39) · p. 48
• Natural Hearing — 36. Smallest Pieces and Modern Physics: Arguments 2-7 Against Anaxagoras, Locke and Ability (from 1:00:28) · p. 33
• Natural Hearing — 37. Aristotle, Plato and the Good Student: Preparing for Matter and Lack of Form · p. 33
• Natural Hearing — 55. Beginning the Study of Time: Puzzles About the Now (from 7:23) · p. 33
• Natural Hearing — 63. Physics VI: The Continuous Is Not Composed of Indivisibles, and Democritus’ Cone (from 18:51) · p. 33
• Natural Hearing — 66. Points Cannot Compose a Line: Aristotle’s Arguments in the First Reading (from 35:48) · p. 33
• De Anima — 41. How the Senses and Reason Are Acted On Differently, Two Kinds of Ability, and What Reason Knows (from 33:21) · p. 38
• De Anima — 51. Imagination vs. Thought: Truth in Statements, Universal vs. Singular, Words and Metaphor, Music, and Loving Reason and Wisdom (from 17:07) · p. 40
• De Anima — 63. Summa I q.75 a.2: Is the Human Soul Subsisting? Why the Intellect Is Not a Body (from 34:55) · p. 33
• De Anima — 130. Summa I, Q. 82, Art. 4: Does the Will Move the Understanding? End and Agent as Two Kinds of Mover (from 35:37) · p. 40
• De Anima — 147. Summa I, Q.85, Articles 7–8: Why Some Understand Better Than Others, and Whether We Know the Indivisible First (from 29:25) · p. 50
• Wisdom (2005) — 8. The Four Causes and the First Philosophers: Thales and Anaximander (from 23:26) · p. 2
• Wisdom (2005) — 9. Anaximenes, Pythagoras and Heraclitus: Air, Number, and the Puzzle of Change (from 46:20) · p. 15
• Wisdom (2005) — 10. Heraclitus: Hidden Harmony, Strife as Father of All, and Fire (from 16:30) · p. 19
• Wisdom (2005) — 11. Empedocles: The Four Elements, Ratios, and Change as Mere Mixing (from 42:12) · p. 27
• Wisdom (2005) — 12. Empedocles on Love and Hate, Mind vs. Chance, and Anaxagoras on Everything in Everything (from 35:14) · p. 32
• Wisdom (2005) — 13. Anaxagoras on Matter and Mind: Infinite Division, the Continuous, and Why the Ruler Must Be Separate (from 12:41) · p. 33
• Wisdom (2005) — 14. Anaxagoras on Mind, Part 2: How the Mind Rules Itself, the Ten Attributes of Mind, and a Greater Mind That Is Angelic Rather Than Divine (from 50:39) · p. 48
• Wisdom (2005) — 26. Metaphysics Book III, Part 1: How Many First Causes? Corruptible and Incorruptible Things, the One and Being, and Universal vs. Individual Causes (from 23:11) · p. 48
• Wisdom (2005) — 37. Is Moral Effect Accidental to the Poet? Accidental Causes, No Science of the Accidental, and Modern Determinism (from 22:13) · p. 49
• Wisdom (2005) — 40. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 1: Summing Up Book VII, Change, and Knowing First Matter by Proportion (from 40:11) · p. 15
• Wisdom (2005) — 43. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 3 (Part 2): Definitions and Forms Are Like Numbers (from 4:40) · p. 33
• Wisdom (2005) — 50. Metaphysics IX, Reading 5: Act Known by Induction and Proportion; Motion vs. Perfect Act (from 28:48) · p. 33
• Prima Pars — 2. Dei Filius Chapter 1: God Distinct from the World, Creation, Providence and the Canons Against Pantheism (from 22:47) · p. 48
• Prima Pars — 65. Summa I, Q.15 aa.1-3: Ideas in the Divine Mind (Whether There Are Ideas, Whether Many, and Whether of All Things God Knows) (from 49:43) · p. 48
• Prima Pars — 68. Summa I q.16 a.4–5: Is the true before the good? Is God truth? (Simply vs. in some respect; appropriation; ’through itself’) (from 13:07) · p. 40
• Prima Secundae — 175. Comparing Sins II: Opposed Virtues and Carnal vs. Spiritual Sins (ST I-II q.73 aa.4-5) (from 36:01) · p. 33