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What can it do? What is it made of?
Spread from computer to computer
Be in a computer without being active
Make a computer “sick”
ReproduceFollow directions
Coded information stored by electricity
Directions
Is a computer virus alive?
Spread from person to person
Be in a person that isn’t showing symptoms of flu
Make people sickReproduceFollow a program
Sting of coded information surrounded by proteins Proteins are atoms
which are electrically charged
What can it do? What is it made of?
Is the flu virus alive?
PHILOSOPHY
What is Philosophy?
Explores what we don’t knowWhen answers are found it becomes
science
The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence
Why study philosophy?
To become trained to think clearly about problems from multiple perspectives
To become trained to consider implications of decisions and actions
To become trained to anticipate opposing arguments
To critically examine your own life and the world you live in
THE BEGINNINGS OF PHILOSOPHY
Pre-Socratics
COSMOLOGY
Thales (THAY-leez)
• Astronomer and expert on managing water
• Water = liquid, solid and vapor and could explain how reality changes
• Water must be the basic ingredient in the universe
Anaximander (an-ax-uh-MAN-der)
• Basic ingredient in the universe is “boundless”• Known elements are in opposition to
each other – primal substance must be neutral• Scientist – drew a map of the known
world and invented a sundial• People evolved from fish
Anaximenes (an-ax-uh-MEEN-eez)
• Pupil of Anaximander
•Air was the primal substance
•Earth was flat and held together by air
Pythagoras (puh-THAG-or-us)
• Mathematics - (a²+b²=c²)• Transmigration of souls• Society of disciples• Divine principles of the universe can be
expressed in terms of relationships of numbers
• The secrets of the cosmos are revealed by pure thought, through deduction and analytic reflection on the perceptible world.
Heraclitus (hare-uh-KLITE-us)
• Criticized conventional opinions and wise men• Everything is in flux and all things are one• Nature of things is a formula• Influenced other philosophers
Metaphysicsconcerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence, connectedness or truth
Parmenides (par-MEN-uh-deez)
• From cosmological to metaphysical• Senses are misleading so we must rely on reason • What is and what not is• You can’t think of something that doesn’t exist – existence is eternal
Senses can lie …
Empedocles (em-PED-uh-kleez)
•Fire, air, earth and water•Atomism•Love and Strife•Evolution
