Epicurus

Epicurus

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Epicurus (Greek) (341 BC, Samos - 270 BC, Athens) was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of Epicureanism, a popular school of thought in...
Democritus

Democritus

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Democritus (Greek:) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace ca. 460 BC). Democritus was a student of Leucippus and...
Avicenna

Avicenna

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Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, al...
Confucius

Confucius

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Confucius (lit. "Master Kung," 551 BCE - 479 BCE) was an esteemed Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have...

Philodemus

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Philodemus of Gadara (in Greek) (Gadara, Coele-Syria, c. 110 BCE-probably Herculaneum c. 40/35 BCE) was an Epicurean philosopher and poet who...
Metrodorus Of Lampsacus

Metrodorus Of Lampsacus

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Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger) (331-278 BC) was a Greek philosopher of the Epicurean school. Although one of the four major proponents of...
Lucretius

Lucretius

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Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99 BC- ca. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem "De Rerum...

Amafanius

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C. (probably Gaius) Amafanius (or Amafinius) was one of the earliest Roman writers in favour of the Epicurean philosophy. He wrote several works,...
Cicero

Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose...

Hermarchus

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Hermarchus, sometimes, but incorrectly, written Hermachus. He was a son of Agemarchus, a poor man of Mytilene (in insular Greece), and was at first...