Discussion
The view that human beings were playthings at the hands of powerful but morally weak deities was held by :
Answer: C
The view was held by Homer.
In the Homeric epics the gods are powerful and immortal but behave with the passions of human beings: they quarrel, deceive, take sides in the Trojan war and use mortals for their own ends. Standard histories of Greek philosophy cite this picture of humans as playthings of strong but morally weak deities as the background against which philosophy began.
The philosophers named in the other options reacted against it. Thales sought a natural first principle instead of divine caprice. Heraclitus saw the world governed by the logos, a rational law. Aristotle's god is the unmoved mover, pure thought thinking itself, with no interest in using human beings.
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