• 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • schools Positivism Postmodernism Pragmatism Praxis school Pre-Socratic philosophy Process philosophy Pyrrhonism Pythagoreanism Post-structuralism Quietism...
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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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    also spelled Khronos or Chronus, is a personification of time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature. Chronos is frequently confused with, or perhaps...
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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. The subsequent medieval period in the West discussed...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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. John Raven was born on 13 December 1914...
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  • Metempsychosis (category Concepts in ancient Greek philosophy of mind)
    In philosophy, metempsychosis (Greek: μετεμψύχωσις) is the transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. The term is derived from...
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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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  • 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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    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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    (/ˌhɛrəˈklaɪtəs/; Greek: Ἡράκλειτος Herákleitos; 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Eduard Zeller (category 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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    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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    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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    Northern Hemisphere. Natural philosophy has its origins in Greece during the Archaic period (650 BCE – 480 BCE), when pre-Socratic philosophers like Thales...
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  • Physis (category Theories in ancient Greek philosophy)
    originated in ancient Greek philosophy, and was later used in Christian theology and Western philosophy. In pre-Socratic usage, physis was contrasted...
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