“Pre-Socratic thought
evaluate your ability to distinguish scientific philosophical religious and speculative aspects in Pre-Socratic thought as well as your your ability to identify and explain the main characteristics of scientific understanding in Pre-Socratic philosophy
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate your ability to distinguish scientific
philosophical religious and speculative aspects in Pre-Socratic thought as well as your
your ability to identify and explain the main characteristics of scientific understanding in
Pre-Socratic philosophy.
Directions
1. Create a document in the word processing program of your choice but bear in
mind that you finalized document MUST be in Microsoft Word format (file
extension .doc or .docx) or rich text format.
2. Write an essay in which you do the following:
a. Carefully explain in your own words the difference between scientific
philosophical religious and speculative claims or explanations. Make sure to
be precise thorough and detailed. Your explanations should allow a reader
unfamiliar with the topic to fully understand both the similarities and the
differences between these types of claims or explanations (2-4 paragraphs
approx. 200-300+ words).
b. For each type of explanation (scientific philosophical religious and
speculative) provide one Pre-Socratic example and one original example of
your own (in contemporary thinking for instance). For each example carefully
explain the characteristics that make it a scientific philosophical religious or
speculative claim or explanation (2-4 paragraphs approx. 200-300+ words).
c. Carefully explain in your own words the notions of materialism determinism
reductionism and empiricism (i.e. the characteristics of scientific inquiry).
Make sure to be precise thorough and detailed. You explanations should
allow a reader unfamiliar with the topic to fully understand these concepts
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