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Hace 4 días · Pythagoras continued to be regarded as a great philosopher throughout the Middle Ages and his philosophy had a major impact on scientists such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton.
16 de may. 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.
- Democritus was an ancient Greek philosopher. He and his mentor, Leucippus, are widely regarded as the first atomists in the Grecian tradition. Alth...
- Democritus was a central figure in the development of the atomic theory of the universe. He theorized that all material bodies are made up of indiv...
- Relatively little is known about the life and death of Democritus. According to most reports, Democritus was born circa 460 BCE and died some 90 ye...
- No. Despite its phonetic similarity to Democritus, democracy is not named for Democritus. The word democracy is actually derived from the Greek dēm...
Hace 3 días · Heraclitus ( / ˌhɛrəˈklaɪtəs /; Greek: Ἡράκλειτος Herákleitos; fl. c. 500 BC) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on Western philosophy, including the works of Plato and Aristotle.
Hace 5 días · Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived and the first genuine scientist in history. He made pioneering contributions to all fields of philosophy and science, he invented the field of formal logic , and he identified the various scientific disciplines and explored their relationships to each other.
- After his father died about 367 BCE, Aristotle journeyed to Athens, where he joined the Academy of Plato. He left the Academy upon Plato’s death ab...
- Aristotle’s most famous teacher was Plato (c. 428–c. 348 BCE), who himself had been a student of Socrates (c. 470–399 BCE). Socrates, Plato, and Ar...
- Aristotle wrote as many as 200 treatises and other works covering all areas of philosophy and science. Of those, none survives in finished form. Th...
- Aristotle’s thought was original, profound, wide-ranging, and systematic. It eventually became the intellectual framework of Western Scholasticism,...
19 de may. de 2024 · The school consisted of three philosophers: Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, who were all primarily interested in cosmology, and the origin and substance of the world. They all believed the world was made of a fundamental element called an arche.
14 de may. de 2024 · Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Leucippus, and Democritus take the nature of reality to consist in a plurality of objects, not one object, as the Milesian inquirers thought. This new ontology provides a means to defend the inquiry into nature against the threat Parmenides posed.
Hace 4 días · Also like Democritus, Epicurus was a materialist who taught that the only things that exist are atoms and void. Void occurs in any place where there are no atoms. Epicurus and his followers believed that atoms and void are both infinite and that the universe is therefore boundless.
