1. Buddhism
  2. Big Issue: how do we know about the pre-Socratics? Fragments & Testimonies... bits n' pieces filtered through agendas.. (Aristotle, Theophrastus, Simplicius, church fathers)
  3. "Infinite in time & space" (apeiron) that contains our cosmos --> definite things "separate out", initially as COLD/HOT (or endless universes?) --> cyclically generate/destroy in a balance (JUSTICE) /ball of fire w/holes in mist aka stars; earth a drum.
  4. Infinite Divine Air --> thin, then fire; thick, then wind, cloud, water, earth...; air as fluid, invisible, a "definite stuff," gives rise to the many; earth a "frisbee" riding on air; sun, planets, etc are "fire"; soul = breath (pneuma) --> we are microcosm of cosmos.
  5. HOMER (Illiad & Odyssey)
  6. HESIOD (Theogeny)
  7. Rejected Homeric Gods (too human, just a projection, if Cows...); His God: perfect, not-needy, motionless, bodyless, powerful via thought alone; just "thinks and perceives"; one god?; also skeptical and distinguishes between truth and "good to believe anyway"
  8. MATHEMATICS
  9. Theogeny 2
  10. Socrates
    1. Plato
      1. Aristotle
        1. Epicureans
        2. Stoics
        3. Sceptics
          1. Neo-Platonism
          2. Early Christianity
        4. Cyreniacs
  11. Pre-Socratics
    1. Thales (M)
      1. Anaximander (M)
        1. Anaximenes (M)
          1. Xenophanes (M-)
          2. Heraclitus
        2. Pythagoras (Italy)