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An Outline of History

An Outline of History. From the point of view of science, religion, and philosophy. Pre- socratic philosophers. Roughly 600-400 BCE Known only in fragments Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes , Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeno Pythagoras of Samos (582-496 BCE). The golden age of greece.

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An Outline of History

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  1. An Outline of History From the point of view of science, religion, and philosophy

  2. Pre-socratic philosophers • Roughly 600-400 BCE • Known only in fragments • Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeno • Pythagoras of Samos (582-496 BCE)

  3. The golden age of greece • Socrates (469-399 BCE) • Plato (427-327 BCE) • Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

  4. The collapse of the roman empire and the beginning of the dark ages • Ptolemy (127-151) Greek astronomer and mathematician • Augustine of Hippo (354-322 BCE) • Perhaps the most influential thinker in the history of the Roman Catholic Church

  5. The high middle ages and the beginning of the renaissance • Rediscovery of the classics • Dante (1263-1321) – the “Sweet New Style” • Aquinas (1224-1274) – the “Angelic Doctor” • The great cathedrals were begun.

  6. The scientific revolution • Galileo (1574-1642) • Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

  7. The age of enlightenment • Roughly coincident with the 18th century • New emphasis on reason, freedom, and democracy. • Questioning the authority of the church • David Hume (1711-1776) • Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) • James Hutton (1726-1797) The father of modern geology. “No vestige of a beginning; no prospect of an end.”

  8. The 19th century • Charles Darwin (1809-1892)

  9. The 20th century • Modern Physics • Quantum Mechanics • Cosmology • Chaos • Biology – the Darwinian synthesis • The rise of American fundamentalism

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