Is a computer virus alive?

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 and Parmenides

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

Empedocles (em-PED-uh-kleez)

Empedocles (em-PED-uh-kleez)

•Fire, air, earth and water•Atomism•Love and Strife•Evolution

Socrates