Pre-Socratic philosophy, also known as Early Greek Philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates. Pre-Socratic philosophers were mostly interested...
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Plato that it is conventional to refer to philosophy developed prior to Socrates as pre-Socratic philosophy. The periods following this, up to and after...
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The Ionian school of pre-Socratic philosophy refers to Ancient Greek philosophers, or a school of thought, in Ionia in the 6th century B.C, the first...
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scientific method. Pre-Socratic philosophy also known as Early Greek Philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates. Pre-Socratic philosophers were...
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The Italian school of pre-Socratic philosophy refers to Ancient Greek philosophers in Italy or Magna Graecia in the 6th and 5th century BC. Contemporary...
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Metaphysics (redirect from First philosophy)
the Upanishads in ancient India, Daoism in ancient China, and pre-Socratic philosophy in ancient Greece. During the subsequent medieval period in the...
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Apeiron (category Presocratic philosophy)
to the cosmological theory created by Anaximander, a 6th-century BC pre-Socratic Greek philosopher whose work is mostly lost. From the few existing fragments...
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Science in classical antiquity (redirect from Pre-experimental Science)
in any of these areas. The earliest Greek philosophers, known as the pre-Socratics, were materialists who provided alternative answers to the same question...
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[kʰrónos]), also spelled Chronus, is a personification of time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature. Chronos is frequently confused with, or perhaps...
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Presentism - Pre-Socratic philosophy - Probabilism - Process philosophy - Progressivism - Property dualism - Pseudophilosophy - Psychiatry, philosophy of - Psychological...
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First principle (category Concepts in the philosophy of science)
cosmogonies of Hesiod and Orphism, through the physical theories of Pre-Socratic philosophy and Plato before being formalized as a part of metaphysics by Aristotle...
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Western culture, beginning with the ancient Greek philosophy of the pre-Socratics. The word philosophy itself originated from the Ancient Greek philosophía...
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Dionysus and a re-ordering of Hesiod's Theogony, based in part on pre-Socratic philosophy. The suffering and death of the god Dionysus at the hands of the...
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Eleatics (redirect from Eleatic school of philosophy)
states that the chronology of pre-Socratic philosophers is one of the most contentious issues of pre-Socratic philosophy. Many of the historical details...
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philosophy 19th-century philosophy 20th-century philosophy Philosophies during ancient history. Pre-Socratic philosophy Milesian school - Thales, Anaximander,...
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Idealism (redirect from Idealism (philosophy))
Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally...
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Bekker numbering (category Ancient Greek philosophy studies)
Plato, and Diels–Kranz numbering is the comparable system for Pre-Socratic philosophy. Unlike Stephanus pagination, which is based upon a three-volume...
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Socrates, the friend and teacher of Plato, turned philosophy to human questions, whereas pre-Socratic philosophy had only been theoretical, and concerned with...
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In historical scholarship, the Socratic problem (also called Socratic question) concerns attempts at reconstructing a historical and philosophical image...
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Eduard Zeller (category German historians of philosophy)
Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Pre-Socratic Philosophy, and most of all for his celebrated, multi-volume historical treatise The Philosophy of Greeks...
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the series. The work provides extensive coverage of Western philosophy from the Pre-Socratics through to John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, George Edward Moore...
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Heraclitus (section Pre-Socratics)
Tfd›Greek: Ἡράκλειτος Hērákleitos; fl. c. 500 BC) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian...
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Metempsychosis (category Concepts in ancient Greek philosophy of mind)
In philosophy, metempsychosis (Ancient Greek: μετεμψύχωσις) is the transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. The term is derived...
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John Raven (category British scholars of ancient Greek philosophy)
1980) was an English classical scholar, notable for his work on pre-Socratic philosophy, and amateur botanist. His wife, Faith, inherited the 35,000 acre...
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Anaximenes of Miletus (section Philosophy)
Ἀναξιμένης ὁ Μιλήσιος; c. 586/585 – c. 526/525 BC) was an Ancient Greek, Pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). He was the...
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Zeno of Elea (section Philosophy)
ˈɛliə/; Ancient Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεᾱ́της; c. 490 – c. 430 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea, in Southern Italy (Magna Graecia). He was...
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Diels–Kranz numbering (redirect from The Fragments of the Pre-Socratics)
is the standard system for referencing the works of the ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosophers, based on the collection of quotations from and reports...
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Theoretical physics began at least 2,300 years ago, under the Pre-socratic philosophy, and continued by Plato and Aristotle, whose views held sway for...
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List of ancient Greek philosophers (category Ancient Greek philosophy-related lists)
studied in ancient Greece or spoke Greek. Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales and lasted through Late Antiquity...
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Anaxagoras (section Philosophy)
Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagóras, "lord of the assembly"; c. 500 – c. 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae at a time when Asia Minor was under...
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