What are the two possible meanings of Thales’claim that water is the primary stuff of nature?

Please answer all of the following questions.

1. What are the two possible meanings of Thales’
claim that water is the primary stuff of nature?
2. According to Anaximander, what is the
fundamental conflict between the qualities that we see in the four primary?
3. According to Anaximenes, when air is
continually compressed, what are the various states that it takes on?
4. According to Pythagoras, what role do numbers
and ratios play in the larger scheme of reality?
5. What are the two cyclical aspects of
Pythagoras’s teaching?
6. What are the main features of Heraclitus’s
view of change and fire?
7. What were Xenophanes’ views about
anthropomorphism and pantheism?
8. According to Parmenides what are the main
features of the One?
9. Explain Zeno’s paradox of the stadium runner.
10. According to Empedocles, how do the forces
of Love and Strife affect the structure of the four elements?
11. Explain Anaxagoras’ view about the infinite
divisibility of matter.
12. What are the main features Democritus’s view
of the atoms?
13. According to Democritus, what role do
image-particles play in perception?
14. What are the main features of Protagoras’s
teaching?
15. What are the three things that Gorgias
argued for in “On Being”?
[Reading 1]
16. What are the main features of Pythagoras’s
philosophy as depicted in Lucian’s “Philosophers for Sale?”
17. What are the main features of Heraclitus’s
philosophy as depicted in Lucian’s “Philosophers for Sale?”
18. What are the main features of Democritus’s
philosophy as depicted in Lucian’s “Philosophers for Sale?”
[Reading 2]
19. According to Gorgias’s “In Praise of Helen”,
why is Hellen not blameworthy if her conduct was the result of yielding to
persuasion?
20. According to Gorgias’s “In Praise of Helen”,
why is Hellen not blameworthy if her conduct was the result of being led
captive by love?
[Short Essay]
21. Short essay: pick any one of the following
views of the presocratic philosophers in this chapter and criticize it in a
minimum of 150 words: Thales on water, Anaximander on the boundless, Anaximines
on air, Pythagoras on numbers, Heraclitus on fire, Xenophanes on religious
anthropomorphism, Parmenides on the One), Zeno on the paradoxes, Empedocles on
love and strife, Anaxagoras on the infinite divisibility of matter, Democritus
on atoms, Protagoras on relativism, and Gorgias on being.

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