He may have died laughing, but Chrysippus gifted us the blueprint for modern psychology and the Stoic wisdom that can calm our modern world.

From Plato’s admiration to Aristophanes’ mockery, this animated explainer uncovers who Socrates really was, if he existed at ...

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Why? Why can’t we accept the evidence of this beautiful world that at this moment surrounds us? So what if it changes or ends ...

Explore the foundational ideas of ancient Greek philosophy, from the naturalistic inquiries of the Pre-Socratics to the ...

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

Parmenides and Heraclitus were two of the most influential pre-Socratic philosophers, and they offer contrasting views on reality and change that can be applied to modern business strategies and ...

The dichotomy between truth and appearance, and the devaluation of appearance, is rooted in pre-Socratic philosophy. Just as Plato leant upon Heraclitus’ flux for his conception of the sensible ...

"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 ...

The great debate among the pre-Socratic philosophers was between Parmenides and Heraclitus. Parmenides argued that the world was static, whereas Heraclitus claimed that all was flux.

Clue & Answer Definitions. PRE-SOCRATIC (adjective). before the time of Socrates; PRE-SOCRATIC (noun). any philosopher who lived before Socrates; THALES (noun). a presocratic Greek philosopher and ...