This page lists some links to ancient philosophy, namely philosophical thought extending as far as early post-classical history (c. 600 CE). Genuine philosophical...
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Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC. Philosophy was used to make sense of the world using reason. It dealt with a wide variety of subjects...
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Ancient Roman philosophy is philosophy as it was practiced in the Roman Republic and its successor state, the Roman Empire. Roman philosophy includes not...
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Cynicism (Ancient Greek: κυνισμός) is a school of thought in ancient Greek philosophy, originating in the Classical period and extending into the Hellenistic...
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'Ancient Egyptian philosophy' is a term used by some authors to refer to ancient Egyptian literature which is considered to have a philosophical aspect...
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society. The debate over whether the thought of ancient Chinese masters should be called philosophy has been discussed since the introduction of this...
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Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge...
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culture, beginning with the ancient Greek philosophy of the pre-Socratics. The word philosophy itself originated from the Ancient Greek philosophía (φιλοσοφία)...
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Hellenistic philosophy is Ancient Greek philosophy corresponding to the Hellenistic period in Ancient Greece, from the death of Alexander the Great in...
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Platonism (redirect from Platonic philosophy)
Platonism is the philosophy of Plato and philosophical systems closely derived from it, though contemporary Platonists do not necessarily accept all doctrines...
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Stoicism (redirect from Stoic philosophy)
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough...
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This list of ancient Greek philosophers contains philosophers who studied in ancient Greece or spoke Greek. Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus...
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and proverbial lore. Western philosophy originated with an inquiry into the fundamental nature of the cosmos in Ancient Greece. Subsequent philosophical...
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The Laurence Professorship of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University was established in 1930 as one of the offices endowed by the bequest of Sir Perceval...
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imitation. Since its first application in the field of rhetoric and drama in ancient Greece it became an important concept not just in philosophical aesthetics...
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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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A sage (Ancient Greek: σοφός, sophós), in classical philosophy, is someone who has attained wisdom. The term has also been used interchangeably with a...
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recovery of ancient philosophy, along with the reception of its Arabic commentators, and significant developments in the fields of philosophy of religion...
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In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations...
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Epistemology (redirect from Knowledge (philosophy))
(/ɪˌpɪstəˈmɒlədʒi/ ih-PISS-tə-MOL-ə-jee; from Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistḗmē) 'knowledge', and -logy) is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemologists...
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Metaphysics (redirect from First philosophy)
like those found in the Upanishads in ancient India, Daoism in ancient China, and pre-Socratic philosophy in ancient Greece. The subsequent medieval period...
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originated in ancient Indo-Iranian roots and were considerably influenced by Zarathustra's teachings. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, the chronology...
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However, Boehner and Gilson claim that Christian philosophy is not a simple repetition of ancient philosophy, although they owe to Greek science the knowledge...
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Unity of opposites (section Ancient philosophy)
dialectical understandings and thus wrote: The principles of the metaphysical philosophy gave rise to the belief that, when cognition lapsed into contradictions...
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philosophy of China up to the 20th century. Western political philosophy originates in the philosophy of ancient Greece, where political philosophy dates...
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (redirect from Hegelian philosophy)
problematic dualisms of modern philosophy, Kantian and otherwise, typically by drawing upon the resources of ancient philosophy, particularly Aristotle. Hegel...
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Intuition (redirect from Intuition--philosophy)
Philosophy of Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470695913.[page needed] Sosa, Ernest (2009), "A Defense of the Use of Intuitions in Philosophy"...
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[citation needed] Pederasty was both idealized and criticized in ancient literature and philosophy. The argument has recently been made that idealization was...
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Leucippus, Democritus and Protagoras) Socrates, Plato and Aristotle Ancient Philosophy after Aristotle (including the Cynics, Sceptics, Epicureans, Stoics...
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Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows is a 2018 book edited by Verity Harte and Raphael Woolf, in which the authors examine key texts...
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