ancient philosophy
Stoics and Epicureans
Ancient philosophy refers to the philosophical traditions that emerged in Greece, Rome, India, and China before the medieval period—roughly from the 6th century BCE through the 5th century CE in the Western tradition.
The term most often means Greek and Roman thought: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics.
These thinkers addressed questions about knowledge, ethics, metaphysics, and the good life that still shape philosophical inquiry.
She specialized in ancient philosophy, particularly Aristotle's ethics.
- StoicismVirtue-centered ancient philosophy
- AristotelianismPhilosophy derived from Stagira's sage
- unmoved moverSelf-sufficient first cause
- golden meanIdeal moderate position
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
metaphysics · first principles · epistemology · know thyself · logic · aesthetics · rationalism · examined life · Epicureanism · cosmology · Neoplatonism · teleology · idealism · ontology · materialism · mysticism · dialectic · humanism
- ChinaBeijing, Shanghai, Great Wall, Yellow River, Chinese calligraphy
- philosophyethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology
- philosophy topicsSocratic method, ethics, dialectic, logic, Socratic dialogue
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
- classical educationclassical education, Latin, grammar, logic, trivium
- PhilhellenismHellenism, Greek classics, Winckelmann, Humboldt, Goethe
ancient philosophymodern science
Post-Enlightenment systematic investigation
scientific method · experimental method · cognitive science · applied science · technology
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