Human Nature
What discussions and developments concerning the Nature of Human Beings occurred during the time period before Socrates? Human Nature (for our purposes this term) includes the question: How is a human being similar to, and different from, other beings or kinds of things in the universe? Discuss a few of the thinkers listed below. Not all of them had something to say about human nature. These thinkers include: Homer, Hesiod, Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists, and Protagoras