Presocratics were the early philosophers that were remembered not because of the answers they gave, but rather because of the questions they asked. The term Presocratics simply means before Socrates. So the philosophers that followed Socrates in the sixth century had very little in common with one another with the exception of the time period they were in. These Presocratic philosophers used the power of human reason to try to discover how the world developed and how it operates, and to understand the placements of humans inside the world. This was the first time in history that philosophers from the Archaic period denied God and used what we refer to as science today as a way to explain phenomenon’s that occur in the world. Some of the questions that these early philosophers would inquire were on the subject of physics mathematics, astronomy and biology.           

            The phrase metaphysics was conceived by Aristotle. He depicts this new science of ultimate reality as the nature of the physical world ruled over by this supreme being is further explored in the Physics, which is concerned with the elements that compose the universe and the laws by which they expose. Aristotle’s philosophy concerned Plato’s Theory of Forms. Plato proposed a higher aspect of existence for the ideal forms and thereby created a split between the apparent reality that we distinguish and the indisputable reality that we can only know by philosophical consideration. Aristotle’s philosophy claims that the forms were actually present in the objects we see around us, thereby eliminating the split between the two realities that Plato proposed his philosophical studies.