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The ancient Greek word for element, stoicheion (from stoicheo, "to line up") meant "smallest division (of a sun-dial), a syllable", as the composing unit of an alphabet it could denote a letter and the smallest unit from which a word is formed. Aristotle Aristotle. In On the Heavens (350 BC), Aristotle defines "element" in general:
Die Philosophie der Antike war eine philosophiegeschichtliche Epoche. Sie dauerte mehr als 1100 Jahre, von etwa 600 v. Chr. (als ältester Vertreter wurde Thales um 624 v. Chr. geboren) bis ins 6. Jahrhundert n. Chr., als die letzten Neuplatoniker wirkten. Ihre Hauptschauplätze waren das antike Griechenland und das Römische Reich .
Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period , are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey , set in an idealized archaic past today identified as having some relation to the Mycenaean era .
v. t. e. Philosophy ( φιλοσοφία, 'love of wisdom', in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions. Historically, many of the individual ...
Pre-Socratic philosophy, also known as Early Greek Philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates. Pre-Socratic philosophers were mostly interested in cosmology, the beginning and the substance of the universe, but the inquiries of these early philosophers spanned the workings of the natural world as well as human society, ethics, and ...
Cynicism (philosophy) Statue of an unknown Cynic philosopher from the Capitoline Museums in Rome. This statue is a Roman-era copy of an earlier Greek statue from the third century BC. [1] The scroll in his right hand is an 18th-century restoration. Cynicism ( Ancient Greek: κυνισμός) is a school of thought in ancient Greek philosophy ...
Ancient Greek philosophy focused on the role of reason and inquiry. In many ways, it had an important influence on modern philosophy , as well as modern science. Clear unbroken lines of influence lead from ancient Greek and Hellenistic philosophers , to medieval Muslim philosophers and Islamic scientists , to the European Renaissance and Enlightenment , to the secular sciences of the modern day.
