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.
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[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.
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Anaxagoras describe the universe as a mixture of primary ingredients. He is also famous for his Astronomical and mathematical research.
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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.
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Heraclitus is mostly well known for his insistence on ever-present change, known as flux or becoming.
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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.
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The Eleatics were a group of pre-Socratic philosophers in the 5th century BC centered around the ancient Italian Greek colony of Elea.
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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN (1889 ~ 1951), AUSTRIA
Wittgenstein worked on logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of language. His unique idea of how logical relationship between the world and propositions (or philosophical arguments).
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