One was meeting the great Greek philosopher Socrates. Socrates's methods of dialogue and debate impressed Plato so much that he soon he became a close associate and dedicated his life to the question of virtue and the formation of a noble character. The other significant event was the ...
The most famous Greek philosopher is Socrates. Socrates directly contradicted previous philosophers and has influenced popular perspectives in politics, ethics, morals, science, and other fields for centuries. What is the meaning of Greek philosophy? Greek philosophy consists of the concepts of Pre-Socr...
Greek philosopher quotes that will make you wise 69. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”– Epictetus 70. “When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.”—Socrates 71. “The learning and knowle...
Plato, Cratylus 400d & 401e (trans. Lamb) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) : "[Plato constructs philosophical etymologies for the names of the gods :] Sokrates (Socrates) : Let us inquire what thought men had in giving them [the gods] their names . . . The first men who gave names ...
Plato, Gorgias 523a ff (trans. Lamb) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) : "Sokrates (Socrates) : Give ear then, as they say, to a right fine story, which you will regard as a fable, I fancy, but I as an actual account; for what I am about to tell you I mean to offer as the...
(109 quotes) “On doit etre etonné ([Abbé Raynal]says) que l'Amerique n’ait pas encore produit un bon poëte, un habile mathematicien, un homme de génie dans un seul art, ou une seule science.”…“America has not yet produced one good poet.” When we shall have existed as ...
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Philosophy: Greek Philosophers - All is One (Space) and Active-Flux (Wave Motion). Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Atomists (Democritus, Lucretius), Socrates, Plato, Epicurus.Aristotle - On Philosopher Aristotle's Metaphysics and Physics (Motion). (Aristotle was one of ...
Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher regarded as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral (道德的) philosopher. He made no writings, and is known mainly through the description of classical writers’writing after his lifetime, particularly his students Plato ...
Plato, Cratylus 400d & 396a (trans. Fowler) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) : "[Plato constructs philosophical etymologies for the names of the gods :] Sokrates (Socrates) : Let us inquire what thought men had in giving them [the gods] their names . . . The first men who gave names...