Heraclitus

Heraclitus

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Heraclitus of Ephesus (ca. 535-475 BCE) (Ancient Greek: - ("Herakleitos the Ephesian")), known as "The Obscure" (Ancient Greek -), was a...
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...
Anaximander

Anaximander

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Anaximander (Ancient Greek: "'"') (c. 610 BCE-c. 546 BCE) was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia. He joined the...
Protagoras

Protagoras

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Protagoras (Greek:) (ca. 490- 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue...
Zeno Of Elea

Zeno Of Elea

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Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Called by Aristotle...
Pythagoras

Pythagoras

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Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian (Greek) philosopher and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great...
Gorgias

Gorgias

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Gorgias, Greek sophist, pre-socratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first...
Empedocles

Empedocles

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Empedocles (Greek:, ca. 490-430 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily. Empedocles'...
Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras

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Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was a member of what is now often called the Ionian School of philosophy.
Thales

Thales

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Thales of Miletos, was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek...