Abstract
In order to demonstrate the great importance of Philosophy in the elaboration of current scientific theories, a parallel was drawn between concepts of pre-Socratic Philosophy and current modern theories. Thus, throughout this essay, the convergences between some elaborations developed by philosophers and their reinterpretation from a scientific point of view, supported by the scientific method and the present technological apparatuses, were exposed. In this sense, having as its core the reflection about the atomic theory of Leucippus and Democritus, we investigate the way in which atomism dialogues with the modern Atomic Theory to the Quantum Theory, through concepts of Kosmos and Cosmology. In a second moment, origin of life theories were revisited from the pre-Socratic concepts of Psykhe. Finally, Philosophy and Science are brought together as possible and complementary tools for the restoration of the amplification of thought and investigative processes.
Highlights
The explanations of the first philosophers concerning the origin and the maintenance of the Universe can be considered a point of departure to posterity
The observations regarding nature that had their origin in the period between the 7th and the 4th centuries B.C. could not rely on what nowadays operates as a pre-condition to any scientific research, viz, laboratories and its instruments as well was mathematization, they set the paradigmatic use of a method to answer questions such as what is the Universe? What is movement? What is everything? The use of a method is another pre-condition to any scientific research and demands a well-established path to allow the resulting scientific speech to show in its particularities the methodology which bases its logics
Human beings are imprisoned in false ideas which lack grounding. If both the mythic discourse of the archaic period and the JudeoChristian discourse are based upon the Holy Scriptures have in common the fact that they conceive of nature as a manifestation of a super-nature that is not observable, another scenario is presented by philosophy and science: only what is observable can be described as nature, and must be subject to experimentation, theories and scientific paradigms
Summary
The explanations of the first philosophers concerning the origin and the maintenance of the Universe can be considered a point of departure to posterity. The philosopher was able to correlate the apparent position of the heavenly bodies in the firmament with environmental variations that are cyclical and observable through the year such as rain distribution, temperature oscillations, and the number of daily hours of light Taking these correlations into account, and even if Thales himself ignored Earth’s rotation and revolution, he was able to infer that these movements were the origin of the four seasons and the climatic variations, as pointed out by Loutre et al (2004). Publications such as Copernicus “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres” and Galileo’s “The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems” are being discussed and presented to the public (Wightman, 1964) Within this environment Modern Science is born: based on a scientific methodology, a theory is built empirically and verified through experiments, nature is quantifiable and can be proved to work this or that way. If both the mythic discourse of the archaic period and the JudeoChristian discourse are based upon the Holy Scriptures have in common the fact that they conceive of nature as a manifestation of a super-nature that is not observable, another scenario is presented by philosophy and science: only what is observable can be described as nature, and must be subject to experimentation, theories and scientific paradigms
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