It had an important impact on prominent figures of Late Antiquity such as Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus, Porphyry, and greatly influenced the early Church Fathers, most notably St.
Their work was continued, systematized and amplified by Stoic, Epicurean, and Skeptical thinkers. Plato, who had studied under Socrates, and Plato’s own student Aristotle, expanded the discipline of philosophy and forked out the path of Western intellectual thought with their discussions of logic, ethics, poetry, myth, politics, physics, and metaphysics. Some centuries later, Socrates ignited an intellectual revolution that would challenge traditional notions of morality and value forever. The earliest beginnings of philosophy are traced back to the sixth century B.C.E., when the first scientists of Western history, the Pre-Socratics – among them Thales, Heraclitus and Parmenides – advanced revolutionary theories concerning the natural world, human knowledge and humans’ relationship with the gods.
Many thinkers from Classical times were pioneers of our modern philosophical and scientific ideas. Ancient Philosophy and Science Classical PhilosophyĬlassical philosophy studies the fundamental problems concerning human existence through the eyes of our intellectual ancestors.
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