Ancient Greek Philosophy
Though they lived thousands of years ago there is perhaps no civilization that provided more brilliant thinkers and thoughts to the area of philosophy than the ancient Greeks. The philosophy of ancient Greece was noteworthy at the time because it signaled an end to the mythological views of the world and began the process of reason and logic to … Keep Reading → explain the world and what took place. Among the many contributions of ancient Greece were the core philosophical concepts of metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. The most important and influential philosophers of ancient Greece were Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato. Socrates methods of repeated questioning until a final answer was attained are used today as the primary teaching methodology in most law schools. In the period following these three the stoics, epicureans, and the skeptics were some of the leading schools of philosophical thought in ancient Greece.
