Philosophy Protagoras 29 May 201629 May 2016 No that isn't a spelling mistake, I do mean the name Protagoras (c. 490 – c. 420 BC)! He was a Greek philosopher and named by Plato to be a…
Philosophy Empedocles 22 May 201622 May 2016 Empedocles (c. 490 – c. 430 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher. He thought himself to be a god among men, and as legend goes, jumped into a volcano to…
Philosophy Parmenides of Elea 10 Apr 201622 May 2016 Change is impossible! That's one of the things that Parmenides argued. He was a philosopher from Ancient Greater Greece. He was the first person to bring the idea of deductive…
Philosophy Pythagoras of Samos 13 Mar 201622 May 2016 Pythagoras of Samos was a Philosopher and Mathematician born in Ancient Greece, probably most famously known for the equation a2+b2=c2 in a right-triangle. He famously started a school of Pythagoreans…
Philosophy Democritus 20 Feb 201622 May 2016 Democritus was a philosopher from ancient Greece, who is sometimes referred to as 'the laughing philosopher'. He is largely associated with being the first to put together the theory of…
Philosophy Heraclitus of Ephesus 10 Feb 201622 May 2016 Heraclitus was a philosopher from Ancient Greece. From what I have heard and read, he sounds like he wasn't the most sociable of people, and actually looked down on most…
Philosophy Anaximander 8 Feb 201622 May 2016 Anaximander was a philosopher from Miletus in Ancient Greece, who learned the teachings of Thales in the Milesian school. Anaximander's contributions spread across different disciplines, such as astrology and geometry.…
Philosophy Thales of Miletus 8 Feb 201622 May 2016 Thales is known to be the first philosopher (by the majority of people, anyway). He came from Miletus in Ancient Greece, and is also known for being a mathematician and…
