Presocratic Philosophy

Thales to Democritus: the first natural philosophy of principles and elements. Empedocles's four roots mixed by Love and Strife, Heraclitus's flux and fire, Parmenides's one. In RENAISSANCE 3.0 the source of the earthling made of clay mixing earth, air, water and fire, and of fire as one of the five controlling metaphors.

· 600 BCE– · extinct · influence 9/10