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  2. Ancient Greek philosophy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Peripatetic school - Wikipedia

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    The Peripatetic school (Ancient Greek: Περίπατος lit. ' walkway ' ) was a philosophical school founded in 335 BC by Aristotle in the Lyceum in ancient Athens . It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific inquiries.

  4. Hellenistic philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Hellenistic philosophy is Ancient Greek philosophy corresponding to the Hellenistic period in Ancient Greece, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. [1] The dominant schools of this period were the Stoics , the Epicureans and the Skeptics .

  5. Ionian school (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The Ionian school of pre-Socratic philosophy refers to Ancient Greek philosophers, or a school of thought, in Ionia in the 6th century B.C, the first in the Western tradition. The Ionian school included such thinkers as Thales , Anaximander , Anaximenes , Heraclitus , Anaxagoras , and Archelaus . [ 1 ]

  6. Cynicism (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    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, originating in the Classical period and extending into the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods.

  7. Lyceum (classical) - Wikipedia

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    Detail from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509–1511) The Lyceum (Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, romanized: Lykeion) was a temple in Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus ("Apollo the wolf-god" [1]). It was best known for the Peripatetic school of philosophy founded there by Aristotle in 334 BC.

  8. Platonic Academy - Wikipedia

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    The Academy (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία, romanized: Akadēmía), variously known as Plato's Academy, the Platonic Academy, and the Academic School, [citation needed] was founded at Athens by Plato circa 387 BC. Aristotle studied there for twenty years (367–347 BC) before founding his own school, the Lyceum.

  9. Cyrenaics - Wikipedia

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    Aristippus of Cyrene. The Cyrenaics or Kyrenaics (Ancient Greek: Κυρηναϊκοί, romanized: Kyrēnaïkoí), were a sensual hedonist Greek school of philosophy founded in the 4th century BCE, supposedly by Aristippus of Cyrene, although many of the principles of the school are believed to have been formalized by his grandson of the same name, Aristippus the Younger.