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Presocratic Philosophers

Resources on the ancient Greeks who introduced the world to philosophy

Anaxagoras is credited with bringing philosophy, the study of knowledge, to Athens when he moved there in 480 B.C.

Anaximander may have written the first philosophical treatise in Greece and was a student or companion of Thales. Fragments and passages about him by other ancient writers.

Anaximenes

Anaximenes was a pupil of Anaximander who believed the underlying principle or arche was air and distinguished planets from stars.

The Eleatic School

About's Philosophy Guide introduces the Eleatic

School

of philosophy to which Zeno, Parmenides and Melissus belonged. It rejected sense experience as a plausible way to the truth, arguing for more rigid mathematical standards of clarity and necessity.

Empedocles

Empedocles was a pluralist philosopher who saw change as the result of two forces, love and strife.

Heraclitus

Philosopher who thought of the logos as an orderly process of change, the doctrine of flux, and Heraclitus' recurrent fallacy of dropped qualifications.

Leucippus

Founder of Atomism. Article from

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Parmenides

Article on the presocratic philosopher Parmenides explains subject matter of metaphysics as ontology, the science of being, and the questioning of whether there is a single underlying substance, permanent or changing.

Presocratic Philosophers: Pythagoras

From your Guide, what educated guesses we can make about this philosopher whose reputation was enhanced by his followers attributing their discoveries to him.

Pythagoras

Resources on Pythagoras the presocratic philosopher and Greek mathematician.

Thales Fragments and Commentary

Founder of Greek philosophy. Page includes passages about him written by other ancient writers and an introduction.

Xenophanes Fragments and Commentary

This site provides text and translations of the founder of the Eleatic school, in addition to his sayings as provided by later writers.

Zeno of Elea

Feature on Zeno, the philosopher from Elea who invented dialectic, met the young Socrates, and was tortured for his political involvement.

Zenon the Philosopher

In 336 BC Zeno, the founder of the Stoics, was born in Kitium. Major life events include shipwreck, slavery, the keys of the city, and suicide.

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Individual Philosophers

Life and teachings of individual Greek and Roman philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle, as well as non Greco-Roman philosophers like Siddharta and Confucius.

Epicureanism

This site's resources on Epicureanism, which is named for

Epicurus

whose ancient philosophy of pleasure, somewhat misunderstood, continues to draw followers.

Overcoming Fear of Ancient Philosophy

Feature from your Guide. Perfect understanding is impossible, but an acquaintance can be useful -- even profitable.

Presocratic Philosophers

Those before or contemporary with Socrates who examined how the universe was created and what were the essential elements, including Thales, Pythagoras, and Empedocles.

Presocratic Philosophy

Diverging from mythography, Presocratic philosophy sought to find an order to the cosmos. Despite their name, the Pre-Socratic philosophers include Socrates.

Parmenides' Metaphysics

Parmenides' Peri Physeis is the philosophical poem he wrote on the ways of objectivity and subjectivity.

Stoicism

This site's resources on Stoicism which is a philosophical school particularly popular among the Romans because of its moral content.

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Socrates:

http://vaneg1.ecs.umass.edu/Socratis/Socratis.htm

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Plato:

http://phd.evansville.edu/plato.htm

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Aristotle: