When studying pre-socratic philosophers and finding out what they…

When studying pre-socratic philosophers and finding out what they…

When studying pre-socratic philosophers and finding out what they believed, which one is correct?

1 .Everyone of those philosophers wrote at least one book and it is just a matter of reading the carefully.

2. Aristotle is the only source we have that is reliable because of his proximity in time and place to the pre-socratic philosophers

3. It is extremely difficult to know what they actually taught because only fragments of their writings survive and we rely on later philosophers and historians to know their views.

4.Homer and Hesiod are a more liable source than Aristotle because they lived at an earlier time than Aristotle