The Presocratics

I'm still trying to finish one term paper from the Fall 04 semester on education, technology and collaboration. Instead I am diving deeper and deeper into the Pre-Socratic philosphers and their theories of knowledge. It's interesting, much more than I imagined. I've always thought that there is really no singular event or era called "the modern" or for that matter "the postmodern" but rather that we have gone through cycles of history that while never quite the same are categorized by particular approaches to knowledge and society. With this in mind I think the Greeks of that time are something like our contemporaries in the way they looked at the problem of how to explain the world. There is still much to learn from them.