The Presocratics: Crash Course History of Science #2

The little giggle before he said "This is so great" made me smile ear to ear. You can FEEL how much he's loving this series and I'm so glad that he's sharing this awesome passion with us! Crash Course is amazing, and I'm really glad that they're doing History of Science.

I'm 23, kinda done with studying for a bit... and at school I DIDN'T always love studying (which was how it felt...as opposed to learning) and now I can't stop watching your videos and I'm so restless, I wanna learn so much! About math, science, philosophy and everything under the sun! All of this made me a much better person and thank you for sparking this interest in me (or making me realise how incredibly nerdy I am... I don't even enjoy mainstream cinema anymore... only documentaries.. I think this will continue until I feel at least a little satiated with knowledge) You truly make this world a better better better place! Thank you

I can't stop watching crash course, you people are simply awesome and this is a very big hello from tunisia, your courses surpassed borders and seas

Crash Course is a national treasure. They should definitely do a series on logical reasoning. Everyone needs to know that. Like how to read and write.

I love how the intro goes through freshman, sophomore, and junior years, but doesn't show a senior year. Science is still changing, and we haven't graduated yet!

Fire. Earth. Water. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in ignorance. But then, everything changed when the Presocratics attacked.

HOW DARE YOU SPEAK OF THE SQUARE ROOT OF TWO IN MY BEAN LESS CULT!

For a second I thought this is going to be about procrastination throughout history.

I'm in University doing my Bachelor of Nursing, so I have been watching Hank teach me Anatomy & Physiology and Psychology for the past several months so I can rock my midterms and exams... and now I'm watching him some more for the pure enjoyment of it!

Please, Hank, keep teaching us philosophy and science. Keep us learning in the most fun ways, through Crash Course

The pre-Socratics were nerds. You heard it here first.

"This is so great" shows just how nerdy Hank is

I recently bought books about historical sciences and to find that Crashcourse is making animations about this for better understanding, couldn't have been any better!

The people at Crash Course have never failed to exceed expectations in every series they pump out. Really wishing I could binge watch this whole series right now

"and then, presumably, Zeno dropped the 450 BCE equivalent of a mic and the crowd went wild"... Hahahhahaha

"Atoms of the void..." has a nice ring to it.

This episode gave me a tour way way back to history. I learned so much to these presocrates philosophers. I'm amazed to them, who are trying to separate myth from the truth and developing valuable methods that we use today. They shared thoughts and learnings to our world that made us moving on from being arrogant such as Thales who separated the world from the divine, Anaximander's formless initial state called the apeiron, pythagoras introduction of idealism to science and democritus' knowledge atoms

Man, this is bringing back a lot of info from the days I took the college courses early 80s. Thanks Hank for making these lessons much more enjoyable!

Rhetoric is the art of language and ancient Greeks loved it. It was a sport for them. I'd be really happy if you could do a crash course on that topic at some point in the future (I'd be happy to network you to resources). People always refer to it as "propaganda" or misunderstand it to be something like "pretty words," but it really is much more than that.

Fun fact: The red (or black) beans most Americans think of when they think of beans and which are such a common staple in the cuisines of many Latin American nations were unknown to the Ancient Greeks as they are native to the Americas, not Europe.