"...We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to help make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective must consider it our solem and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preven...   read more

Thales was a Presocratic philosopher born in Miletus in Greek Ionia. He journeyed widely around the Mediterranean and visited Egypt where he is known to have appreciated their rudimentary forms of mathematics. Also th...   read more

Anaximander was a Presocratic philosopher born in Miletus, Asia Minor. He founded a colony called Apollonia on the coast if the Black Sea and was the first who dared to write a treatise in prose called "On Natur...   read more

Protagoras (ca. 490– 420 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato credits him with having invented the role of the professional sop...   read more

Diogenes was a native of Apollonia in Crete, who was a pupil of Anaximenes and contemporary with Anaxagoras. Schleiermecher, however, affirms, from the internal evidence of the fragments of the two philosophers, that ...   read more

Pythagoras of Samos, was an Ionian (Greek) mathematician and philosopher and the founder of the mystic - scientific society known as the Pythagoreans.

Legendary presocratic philosopher whose followers studied ...   read more

Anaximenes was a presocratic philosopher from Miletus, Asia Minor and a student of Anaximander.

According to the meagre sources of his life he flourished around the mid 6th Century BCE and dies around 528. Lik...   read more

Parmenides of Elea, an ancient Greek philosopher was a student of Ameinias and the founder of the School of Elea, whose students came to be known as Eleatics, which included Zeno of Elea and Melissus of Samos.

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Life and Teachings: Defining Piety, Methods / Aims, Civil Obedience, Knowing Virtue

Socrates firmly believed that, before anyone can understand the world, they first need to understand themsel...   read more

There is practically nothing known about the life of Leucippus and his book appears to have been incorporated into the collective works of Democritus. No writer subsequent to Theophrastos seems to have been able to di...   read more