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Bookmark or Share- Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work. Co-Principal Editors:Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman. Masthead | Editorial Board.
- 1.1 What Is Philosophy? - Introduction to Philosophy | OpenStaxAmong the ancient Greeks, it is common to identify seven sages. The best-known account is provided by Diogenes Laërtius, whose text Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a canonical resource on early Greek philosophy. The first and most important sage is Thales of Miletus.Thales traveled to Egypt to study with the Egyptian priests, where he became one of the first Greeks to learn ...
- 12 Famous Philosophers and Their Guiding Principles - InvaluablePlato (c. 428–348 B.C.) The Republic of Plato. Sold for $4,500 via Sotheby’s (June 2005). Greek philosopher Plato was a student of Socrates and later became a teacher of Aristotle. He was a priori, a rational philosopher who sought knowledge logically rather than from the senses.
- Plato (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)1. Plato’s central doctrines. Many people associate Plato with a few central doctrines that are advocated in his writings: The world that appears to our senses is in some way defective and filled with error, but there is a more real and perfect realm, populated by entities (called “forms” or “ideas”) that are eternal, changeless, and in some sense paradigmatic for the structure and ...
- Socrates (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)The philosopher Socrates remains, as he was in his lifetime (469–399 B.C.E.), [] an enigma, an inscrutable individual who, despite having written nothing, is considered one of the handful of philosophers who forever changed how philosophy itself was to be conceived. All our information about him is second-hand and most of it vigorously disputed, but his trial and death at the hands of the ...
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