Study Questions

1. What were the basic features of material life during the old stone age? How this mode of subsistence determined egalitarian and small social organisation?
2. Is it possible to track the origins of rational science in the old stone age? Discuss how?
3. What is the relationsihp between the neolithic revolution and the emergences of social differences? What was the role of these social differences in development of sciences and techniques? 
4. What were the intelectual and cultural achievements accompanied by the emergences of cities?
5. In Greek civilisation there was a tendency towards separation of science and philosophy from techniques. What was the long-run result of this tendecy in terms of development of science?
6. In Ionian cities, some philosophers tried to explain material world with natural elements. Discuss how this arguments served to explain social matters?
7. Discuss the continuity of thought from Pytagoras and Parmenides to Plato? What is the common ground of their line of thought to explain material world?
8. What was the main effects of Aristotle’s works for following ages?
9. How did Hellenistic civilisation survived in Christianity and Islam during the middle ages?
10. What was the possible role of Islamic civilisation in duality between natural and social sciences? Discuss this issue in terms of Islamic perception of Greek science and culture?