Resources on the ancient Greeks who introduced the world to philosophy.
Anaximenes was a pupil of Anaximander who believed the underlying principle or arche was air and distinguished planets from stars.
Empedocles was a pluralist philosopher who saw change as the result of two forces, love and strife.
Philosopher who thought of the logos as an orderly process of change, the doctrine of flux, and Heraclitus' recurrent fallacy of dropped qualifications.
From your Guide, what educated guesses we can make about this philosopher whose reputation was enhanced by his followers attributing their discoveries to him.
Resources on Pythagoras the presocratic philosopher and Greek mathematician.
Feature on Zeno, the philosopher from Elea who invented dialectic, met the young Socrates, and was tortured for his political involvement.
A timeline of major ancient Greek and Roman philosophers with links to more information on the individual philosophers.
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.
Early natural philosophy didn't spring up in a vcacuum but borrowed from the mythographers.
Traces the thinking of the early philosophers with emphasis on their quest for an underlying, unifying principle.
In 336 B.C. Zeno, the founder of the Stoics, was born in Kitium. Major events in the life of Zeno (or Zenon) include shipwreck, slavery, the keys of the city, and suicide.
Evolution in early mythological and scientific thinking about celestial movement.
Kelley L. Ross shows how the commercial democracy of Athens provided the necessary basis for the development of philosophy and also warns that a vast educated class is inimical to freedom.
Founder of Atomism. Article from
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
