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Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum (FPG) is a three-volume collection of fragments of ancient Greek philosophers.It was edited by the German scholar, F.W.A. Mullach, and published in Paris by the Didot family between 1860 and 1881.
Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC. Philosophy was used to make sense of the world using reason. It dealt with a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy , epistemology , mathematics , political philosophy , ethics , metaphysics , ontology , logic , biology , rhetoric and aesthetics .
Articles relating to ancient Greek philosophy. It arose in the 6th century BC, at a time when the ancient inhabitants of ancient Greece were struggling to repel devastating invasions from the east. Greek philosophy continued throughout the Hellenistic period and the period in which Greece and most Greek-inhabited lands were part of the Roman ...
Archytas is said to be the first ancient Greek to have spoken of the sciences of arithmetic (logistic), geometry, astronomy, and harmonics as kin, which later became the medieval quadrivium. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] He is thought to have written a great number of works in the sciences, but only four fragments are generally believed to be authentic.
Hegesias (Ancient Greek: Ἡγησίας; fl. 290 BC [1]) of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher. He argued that eudaimonia (happiness) is impossible to achieve, and that the goal of life should be the avoidance of pain and sorrow. Conventional values such as wealth, poverty, freedom, and slavery are all indifferent and produce no more pleasure ...
Georgios Gemistos Plethon (Greek: Γεώργιος Γεμιστὸς Πλήθων; Latin: Georgius Gemistus Pletho c. 1355 /1360 – 1452/1454), commonly known as Gemistos Plethon, was a Greek scholar [4] and one of the most renowned philosophers of the Late Byzantine era. [5] He was a chief pioneer of the revival of Greek scholarship in ...
He was well known for his writings on Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Pre-Socratic Philosophy, [1] [2] and most of all for his celebrated, multi-volume historical treatise The Philosophy of Greeks in their Historical Development (1844–52). [3] Zeller was also a central figure in the revival of neo-Kantianism. [4]
Andronicus is of special interest in the history of philosophy, from the statement of Plutarch, [4] that he published a new edition of the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus, which formerly belonged to the library of Apellicon, and were brought to Rome by Sulla with the rest of Apellicon's library in 84.