1. Having read the chapter on philosophy before Socrates and learned about the branches of...

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1. Having read the chapter on philosophy before Socrates and learned about the branches of philosophy, which of the four branches would you say was their primary focus or concern? Give three examples of why you believe your answer accurately summarizes the primary focus of pre-Socratic philosophy.

2. As you read the "simplistic answer they had" (compared to the complex answer science has given us), do you think that they should , like myths, be understood literally? or should we assume some level of analogy and allegory?Example, for Thales everything is made of water and all things are filled with gods.

3. The author of the gospel of St. John, from the bible, began his book by using the term "word" (logos) to describe who Jesus is. Comparing the LOGOS of Heraclitus with the God of theism (Christianity, Judaism and Islam), do you find any similarities?

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Title: Presocratic Philosophy 
Contents 
Branches of Philosophy before Socrates	3
Analogy and Allegory vs. Myths	4
Similarities Between LOGOS of Heraclitus with the God of theism	4
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Branches of Philosophy before Socrates
The Pre-Socratic philosophy, which is also known as Greek Philosophy has many branches. As discussed by Patra the first branch is Milesian, where the major focus of interest was over the measurement and explanation of the celestial and the terrestrial phenomena. However, the assumptions and the principles provided by them including Aristotle clearly were considered as the philosophical view because they were lacking specific arguments and statements to prove the views. Another example is that there is a difference among Thales and Aristotle regarding the explanation of matters of earth, including water.  And lastly the difference in opinion regarding the explanation of air both by Thales and Anaximander (Lahteenoja). The second branch of philosophy rests on Xenophanes of Colophon, where he proposed a theology that we do not know whether there is any god or there are many gods, or there is any kind of hierarchy in this system. The three examples of this theology are the use of different animals such as ox, horses, or lions. In this theology it has also been supported that gods are ethical in nature, and they are omnipotent, omnibenevolent, or omniscient. And the third aspect of this theology is that it supported on the human knowledge and real facts, rather focusing on something vague in nature (Atanelishvili & Silagadze). The third branch of philosophy is the Pythagorean tradition, which started with Pythagoras, famous for studying numbers and geometrical relation with numbers.

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