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The subject of the painting is actually philosophy, or at least ancient Greek philosophy, and its overhead tondo-label, "Causarum Cognitio", tells us what kind, as it appears to echo Aristotle's emphasis on wisdom as knowing why, hence knowing the causes, in Metaphysics Book I and Physics Book II. Indeed, Plato and Aristotle appear to be the ...
Anaxagoras was born in the town of Clazomenae in the early 5th century BCE, [2] where he may have been born into an aristocratic family. [3] [2] He arrived at Athens, either shortly after the Persian war (in which he may have fought on the Persian side), [4] or at some point when he was a bit older, around 456 BCE. [2]
Strato of Lampsacus (/ ˈ s t r eɪ t oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Στράτων ὁ Λαμψακηνός, romanized: Strátōn ho Lampsakēnós, c. 335 – c. 269 BCE) was a Peripatetic philosopher, and the third director of the Lyceum after the death of Theophrastus.
Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales [1] [2] and lasted through Late Antiquity. Some of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time were from the ancient Greek world, including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. ↵Abbreviations used in this list: c. = circa; fl. = flourished
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A figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, known as a philosopher, minister, and professor of divinity. Campbell was primarily interested in rhetoric and faculty psychology. Dimitrie Cantemir: 1673–1723: Moldavian(Romanian) Philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer. Émilie du Châtelet: 1706–1749 ...