In this video, Rebecca Goldstein- academic philosopher extraordinaire explores the ideas and concepts of the ancient Greek philosophers, particularly the Pre-Socratics. She delves into the key questions that the first philosophers attempted to answer, such as the nature of reality and its underlying simplicity. She discusses their 'reductive intuition', the belief that there is a hidden order behind the apparent chaos and randomness of the world, and how this intuition leads to the rejection of naive realism. The pre-Socratics paved the way for contemporary scientific worldviews by challenging the idea that reality is exactly as it appears to us; how did they arrive at this conclusion? That is what this video is all about.

Furthermore, Goldstein explains how the pre-Socratics sought to analyze appearances in order to conceive of an underlying reality, whether it be Anaximander's concept of the apeiron, Democritus' idea of atoms, or Pythagoras' understanding of numerical ratios. She also touches on the continuity between their ideas and those of modern science, such as Einstein's theory of relativity, which reveals a world far different from our everyday experience.


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