Philosophy – Scriptorium

[Philosophy] Aristotle

With Plato, Aristotle’s views shaped the medieval scholarship and will be the base of western philosophy. His influences are not limited to philosophy and metaphysics but also extend to physical sciences, logics, religions, and ethics.

[Philosophy] The Atomists

The Greek word atomos (the negative term “a-” and “τομή,” the term for “cut”) means “uncuttable or indivisible. Ancient Atomism, proposed by Leucippus and his pupil Democritus in the 5th century BC, is a natural philosophy proposing that the universe is composed of indivisible components known as atoms.

[Philosophy] Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras describe the universe as a mixture of primary ingredients. He is also famous for his Astronomical and mathematical research.

[Philosophy] Empedocles

Empedocles is best known for his cosmogonic theory – the origin of the cosmos or the universe – of the four classical elements – air, fire, water, and earth.

[Philosophy] Heraclitus

Heraclitus is mostly well known for his insistence on ever-present change, known as flux or becoming.

[Philosophy] The Milesians

The Milesian school was a school of early Greek Philosophy of the 6th century BC, based in the Ionian town of Miletus. The Milesian philosophers – Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes – believed the world is made of a fundamental element, an arche.

[Philosophy] The Eleatics

The Eleatics were a group of pre-Socratic philosophers in the 5th century BC centered around the ancient Italian Greek colony of Elea.

[Philosophy] The Nature of the Universe

The most fundamental question of all human thoughts can be about us (human beings) and the world we live in. How did the universe come into being, or what is its most basic substance? Even though we think the answer belongs to the realm of sciences nowadays, seeking the nature of the universe has been the essential activity of Philosophy since its birth. Even now, philosophy can be a fundamental tool for integrating all scientific knowledge into a single grand system of thought.