Several of the most influential Greek philosophers and thinkers are portrayed in Raphael's masterpiece, the School of Athens.

Kant, Socrates—those people were philosophers; you’re someone who reads or thinks about philosophy.” He felt that by calling myself a philosopher, I would be putting on airs, claiming to be ...

Empedocles was one of the philosophers whom historians lump together under the title of the pre-Socratics, that is, the natural philosophers who lived before Socrates of Athens and his disciple Plato.

Also from the pre-Socratic era, Empedocles like most philosophers was also a poet. He is also known as the one who developed and recognizes the four elements we still regard to today–earth ...

He had toyed with becoming a poet before committing to philosophy, traveling to Megara to visit the Socratic philosopher Euclides around 396. On his return to Athens, Plato likely fought in the ...

I t would be difficult to overestimate the influence of Socrates (470–399BC) on western philosophy.We know that he was the mentor of the young Plato, and we also know that Plato’s writings had ...

Pre-Socratic Philosophy (PHIL 481.001 12239) An in-depth seminar on themes and thinkers of the era of Greek Philosophy before Socrates, (b. 470 - d. 399 BCE). Writing intensive. Open to all ...

Description: A survey of ancient Western philosophy from Thales through Plotinus. Selected readings, examinations, and essays on the pre-Socratic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and ...

"The early pre-Socratic philosophers were astronomers, mathematicians, scientists," he said. "There's an old joke that Thales once walked into a well in front of him because he was too busy looking up ...

Like Pythagoras, of whom he knew, the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (d. c. 432 BCE) believed in metempsychosis, and his beliefs, at least in this area, may shed light on those of Pythagoras.