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Greek Philosopher: Anaxagoras

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Anaxagoras was a famous Greek philosopher and noted scientist of the Ionic School, among whose pupils were Socrates, Pericles and Euripides. According to his explanation of the universe, the permanent... published 3 weeks ago

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Greek Philosopher: Zeno of Elea

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Greek mathematician and philosopher of the Eleatic School. Born in Elea, in southwestern Italy, in the 5th century BC. He became a favorite disciple of the philosopher Parmenides and accompanied him to... published 5 weeks ago

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Greek Philosopher: Pythagoras

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Greek mathematican and philosopher, best known for his discovery that the square of the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Greek philosopher and... published 6 weeks ago

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Greek Philosopher: Diogenes

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The celebrated Greek cynic philosopher who is said to have lived in a tub, wearing the coarsest clothing and living on the plainest food. Many of his sayings have been preseved, and serve for occasional... published 2 months ago

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Greek Philosopher: Empedocles

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Empedocles the son of Meton, was a Greek philosopher, statesman and scientist, born in Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily. He was a disciple of the scholars Pythagoras and Parmenides. He is credited as being... published 5 weeks ago

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Greek Philosopher: Democritus

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The Greek philosopher to whom the conception of the Atomic theory is attributed. He visualised atoms - the word is Greek for 'indivisable' - as moving through space, then colliding to form the universe and all... published 2 months ago

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Greek Philosopher: Socrates

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Born in Athens at the peak of the Athenian civilization. Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were his contemporaries. He served for several years as a soldier. As a member of the Athenian Senate, he refused to... published 3 months ago

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Greek Philosopher: Protagoras

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The most famous Greek philosopher before Socrates, who was a younger contemporary. Protagoras sought to teach men virtue in their daily lives, and summed up the basis of his own philosophy in the maxin 'Man is... published 5 weeks ago

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Greek Philosopher: Heraclitus

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Heraclitus was an early famous Greek philosopher, and a leading member of the so-called pre-Socratics. He was a descendant of the royal line of his native city and it is probably that he help temporal and... published 5 weeks ago

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Greek Philosopher: Epicurus

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The founder of the Epicurean philosophy in Athens in 306 BC, which taught that virtue should be followed because it leads to happiness and that good was pleasure and evil was pain. He began his studies with a... published 2 months ago

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