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12 de jul. de 2024 · Democritus, ancient Greek philosopher, a central figure in the development of philosophical atomism and of the atomic theory of the universe. His works reportedly numbered 73, though only a few hundred fragments have survived, mostly from his treatises on ethics.
Hace 5 días · According to Aristotle, Heraclitus was a dialetheist, or one who denies the law of noncontradiction (a law of thought or logical principle which states that something cannot be true and false at the same time). Also according to Aristotle, Heraclitus was a materialist.
Hace 5 días · Zeno is one of three major philosophers in the Eleatic school, along with Parmenides and Melissus of Samos. This school of philosophy was a form of monism , following Parmenides' belief that all of reality is one single indivisible object.
16 de jul. de 2024 · Though Thales of Miletus (c. 580 bce) and some of the other pre-Socratic philosophers have some claims to being regarded as materialists, the materialist tradition in Western philosophy really begins with Leucippus and Democritus, Greek philosophers who were born in the 5th century bce.
5 de jul. de 2024 · A four-line fragment of the poet-philosopher Xenophanes ( c. 570–c. 478bce) denies that anyone can have knowledge, as opposed to opinion or belief ( dokos, LM 8D49). This has often been taken as expressing a thoroughgoing epistemological scepticism, but there are two reasons for doubting this.
16 de jul. de 2024 · Epicureanism, in a strict sense, the philosophy taught by Epicurus (341–270 BCE). In a broad sense, it is a system of ethics embracing every conception or form of life that can be traced to the principles of his philosophy.
Hace 2 días · Leucippus and Democritus proposed atomism as an explanation for the fundamental nature of the universe. Jonathan Barnes called atomism "the culmination of early Greek thought". In addition to these philosophers, the Sophists comprised teachers of rhetoric who taught
