HOMERIC WORLDVIEW CHALLENGED BY THE PRE-SOCRATICS.

HOMERIC WORLDVIEW CHALLENGED BY THE PRE-SOCRATICS.

We earlier wrote on how the world was viewed by Homer and Hesiod, and we tagged it "Before Philosophy". There, we made it known that everything in the world according to Homer and Hesiod were considered to be caused by the God(s).

Our focus here shall be on the Pre-socratics and how they challenged the HOMERIC WORLDVIEW.

PRE-SOCRATICS.

The early Greek Philosophers are often refers to as the Pre-socratics because they lived before the life of the great and renowned Philosopher, Socrates (470-399BCE).

The Pre-socratics Philosophers include; Thales, Anaximander, Anaximanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, etc.
This set of rational individuals set the pace for Science and Discovery by challenging the HOMERIC doctrine of viewing the world.

They challenged the HOMERIC WORLDVIEW in significant ways. For instance, in the case of Homer and Hesiod, nature were explained in terms of the gods having hands on nature and man's natural affairs and as such, following the HOMERIC WORLDVIEW, the Greek were relying on Myths, the  God(s) or the testimony of the Muses.

This in the case of the Pre-socratics, was different. The Pre-socratics looked for the principles that could be discovered in nature itself. They tried to find out or discover those principles primarily through reasoning and observation.
The tendency to rely on reason and observation in attempting to understand the general features of the world brings about science.

The Pre-socratics, through the use of reasoning, marks the beginning of something that can be called science. They were interested in the Studies of the nature and heavens, say it, astronomy and physics. They were also interested in biology and mathematics.

This marks the beginning of the conflict between reason and religious beliefs. They are rightly considered as Philosophers because of their emphasis on reason and experience as the main source of knowledge.