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Pythagoras
- Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician, philosopher, and mystic. He is best known for the similarly named theorem.
- He did most of his work in southern Italy and wrote nothing down.
- Pythagoras was a sage who founded a small religion of devoted followers.
- While he probably didn't prove the theorem that bears his name, he is said to have known “the truth of the theorem" and made an enormous sacrifice to the gods in honor of the discovery.
- His mystical approach to numbers also lead him to discover the relationships between harmonic notes in music and attempt to describe the world regarding math; an activity science carries on to this day.
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Zeno of Elea
He was a pioneer of the reductio ad absurdum argument. Aristotle credited him with co-inventing the dialectic method of philosophy.
He is best remembered for his paradoxes
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Parmenides
He was one of the most influential pre-Socratic thinkers.
Parmenides argued that change was an illusion based on our faulty image of reality. He explained that nothing could be created or destroyed and everything was really “one being." That is, all substan...
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Zeno of Citium
The founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, Zeno was heavily influenced by the Cynics.
Initially a wealthy merchant, he became interested in philosophy during a trip to Athens and grew to be a highly regarded teacher.
Stoicism is a philosophy dedicated to ...
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Thales
- Thales is best remembered for his metaphysics which argued that everything originated from water and that water somehow constituted all other elements. He left no writings.
- Thales devoted time to astronomy and was the first person to predict ...
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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes founded the Cynical school of philosophy, a school dedicated to simple living and virtue. Advocating a simple, disciplined, self-sufficient life, Diogenes lived in a large jar and owned nothing but a cloak and staff. He begged for food and avoided luxuries like the p...
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Heraclitus
A philosopher active around 500 BCE, that wrote a book; this gives us a direct path to his thoughts. He felt that wisdom should be earned, he wrote obscurely, so much so that his book was challenging to read.
He developed a cosmology. His c...
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In the Middle Ages, Plato was known through Latin translations of Arabic translations. In the Renaissance - when Greek became more familiar - far more scholars studied Plato. Plato had an impact on math, science, morals, and political theory.
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Plato
- Born in Athens in 428 B.C.E, Plato was the world's first true and probably the greatest philosopher.
- He devoted his life to one goal: helping people to reach a state of what he termed: Eudaimonia or fulfillment.
- He wrote 36 dialogues: beautifully crafted scripts of imaginar...
Thales
- Thales is best remembered for his metaphysics which argued that everything originated from water and that water somehow constituted all other elements. He left no writings.
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