文档介绍：Greco-roman element
Greek Culture
(7th century . -146BC )
(freedom and wisdom)
Roman Culture (146BC -476)
(Roman law and Christianity)
European culture
Greco-roman element
Free Love and Pleasure
Judeo-Christian element
Moralities
Greek Empire (336 .-.)
Roman Empire
(.-.)
Greek Culture (Peak:5th century .)
Politics
Philosophy
Epics and Greek Mythology
Tragedies; Qin xianglian and Medea
Greek Mythology and Chinese Mythology
Science
Sculpture
Architecture
Presocratic philosophy  (7th century -Socrates)
The Presocratic philosophers asked questions about "the essence of things”
From where does e?
From what is everything created?
Confucianism
Ethics
Taoism
道可道
非常道
The Presocratic philosophers
Thames
泰勒斯
Natural world
Water
Father of western philosophy
Heraclitus
赫拉克利特
Natural world
"You cannot step twice into the same river."
doctrine of change;
Unity of opposites
Pythagoras 
毕达哥拉斯
Natural world
number
the first man to call himself a philosopher, or lover of wisdom
Later philosophers
name
subject
Major idea
contribution
Protagoras
普罗塔哥拉
On human society
Man is the measure of all things
Raising man’s position and dignity
Socrates 苏格拉底
On ethics and moralities
Know yourself; Knowledge is virtue.
From natural world to man himself
Plato 柏拉图
on human society
Republic
idealist
Aristotle 亚里士多德
on human society
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is the truth.
logic, rhetoric, physics