GREEK CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHERS WHO MADE SUCCESSFUL FOUNDATIONS FOR MODERN SCIENCE AND IS LIMITED TO THALES OF ANAXIMANDER AND ANAXIMENES, PYTHAGORAS AND ARISTOTLE.

ABSTRACT

The foundations of Modern Western Science is traceable to the ancient classical Greek Philosophers. Thales of Miletus who postulated  that the ultimate stuff of the universe is water contributed to the science in its ways of corroboration, observation, experimentation, etc. of Modern Western Science.  ‘Empiricism’ is the scientific affirmation or confirmation of every knowledge claimed, which must conform to any of the five external senses. Anaximander postulated that the apeiron is the ultimate stuff of the universe gave contributed to Modern Science in the area of Biology and Embryology. Charles Darwin toed that path when he discussed on the theory of evolution. Anaximenes postulated that air is the ultimate stuff of the universe contributed to change in Modern Western Science where by observation, ‘air changes to wind’ wind to cloud, cloud to water’ brought about the nitrogen cycle. Pythagoras postulation of the universe contributed to mathematics where he believed that all relations could be reduced to numbers, and he is also known for his theory called ‘Pythagoras Theory’ used to solve some mathematical problems. Aristotle’s conception of the universe ‘also contributed immensely to the Modern Western Science which brought the debate between the geocentrists and the helocentrists pertaining to what is at the center of the universe. Is it the sun or the earth that is at the center of the universe? what is at the center of the universe? 

TABLE OF CONTENT

CONTENT                                                                             PAGE

TITLE PAGE                                                                          I

CERTIFICATION                                                                            II

DEDICATION                                                                        III

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT                                                       IV

ABSTRACT                                                                            V

TABLE OF CONTENT                                                                    VI

CHAPTER ONE: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATION  

1.           INTRODUCTION                                                        
   1.           STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM                                      
   1.           OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY                                           
   1.           JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDIES                                             
   1.           METHOD OF STUDIES                                              
   1.           SCOPE OF THE STUDY                                                      
   1.           SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY                                        
   1.           ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY                                     
   1.           DEFINITION OF KEY CONCEPTS                  

CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1     THALES OF MILETUS

2.2     ANAXIMANDER

2.3     ANAXIMENES

2.4     PYTHAGORAS

2.5     ARSITOTLE

CHAPTER THREE: THE CONCEPT OF SCIENCE

3.1      WHAT IS SCIENCE

3.2     THE METHOD OF SCIENCE

3.3     THE RATIONAL IMAGE OF SCIENCE

3.4     CRITICS OF SCIENCE

CHAPTER FOUR: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN WESTERN SCIENCE

IN THE THEORIES OF CLASSICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHERS

4.1     THALES OF MILETUS POSTULATION OF THE UNIVERSE 

4.2     ANAXIMANDER POSTULATION OF THE UNIVERSE

4.3     ANAXIMANDER POSTULATION OF THE UNIVERSE

4.4     PYTHAGORAS’ POSTULATION OF THE UNIVERSE

4.5     ARISTOTLE’S CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSE

CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND EVALUATION

5.1     SUMMARY

5.2     CONCLUSION                                         

5.3     EVALUATION                                         

WORKS CITED

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