Journey of Ideas

What if movement and change are impossible? What if many things couldn't logically exist? Zeno of Elea and Melissus of Samos, two pre-Socratic philosophers, questioned our perception of reality. Using logical arguments, they tried to disprove motion, change, and multiplicity. And so, everything we perceive isn’t really there at all.

Although Zeno and Melissus have largely been proven wrong, their ideas still give us food for thought.

The pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides believed that not only change, but also motion and even the many separate things we see cannot exist. That everything we perceive isn’t really there at all.

“On those who step into the same rivers ever different waters are flowing,” Heraclitus said. This episode explores the philosophy of the Presocratic philosopher Heraclitus.

In this episode, we’ll explore Xenophanes' life and ideas and how they can help us cultivate inner peace amid the noise of modern media and information overload.

You may know Pythagoras because of his triangle. But did you know he was a cult leader?

Who were the very first Western philosophers? What were their ideas? This episode explores Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes.

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The first philosophers, also known as the presocratics, changed the way we think forever.