Thursday, November 10, 2011

"Favorite pre-Socratic Greek philosopher" poll


Favorite pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

Anaxagoras...
Anaximander...
Anaximenes...
Democritus...1
Diogenes...1
Empedocles...
Heraclitus...
Parmenides...
Pythagoras...3
Thales...
Zeno...

All...1
None...1

I had to vote for Pythagoras even though I do find all of them interesting. Do note, that there are many more lesser known philosophers from that era.

Learn more...

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

History of Western Philosophy

Or, an individual entry at Google.

I do recommend...

A History of Philosophy

by

Frank Thilly and Ledger Wood

ASIN: B004CX7EHI

Or. a free Google eBook

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