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	MSN Encarta - Greek Philosophy
		Greek Philosophy, body of philosophical concepts developed by the Greeks, particularly during the flowering of Greek civilization between 600 and 200 bc.
		Greek philosophy may be divided between those philosophers who sought an explanation of the world in physical terms and those who stressed the importance of nonmaterial forms or ideas.
		His avowed purpose was “to fulfill the philosopher's mission of searching into myself and other men.” After a proposition had been stated, the philosopher asked a series of questions designed to test and refine the proposition by examining its consequences and discovering whether it was consistent with the known facts.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563506/Greek_Philosophy.html (683 words)

	Greek philosophy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As it turns out, nearly all of the various cosmologies proposed by the early Greek philosophers are profoundly and demonstrably false, but this does not diminish their importance.
		And the method the Greek philosophers followed in forming and transmitting their answers became just as important as the questions they asked.
		And though philosophers have argued at length about the relative weights that reason and observation should have, for two and a half millennia they have basically united in the use of the very method first used by the pre-Socratics.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/greek_philosophy.htm (1580 words)

	Greek philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clear unbroken lines of influence lead from early Greek philosophers, through early Muslim philosophy to the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the secular sciences of the modern day.
		The history of philosophy in the West begins with the Greeks, and particularly with a group of philosophers commonly called the pre-Socratics.
		The philosopher Socrates (470 B.C. - 399 B.C.) of Athens
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_philosophy (1114 words)

	Greek primordial gods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ancient Greeks proposed many different ideas about the primordial gods in their mythology.
		The many theogonies constructed by Greek poets each give a different account of which gods came first.
		Greek philosophers and thinkers also constructed their own cosmogonies, with their own primordial gods:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_primordial_gods (196 words)

	The Greek Philosophers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It wasn't until the Greek renascence that some Greek philosophers began to move away from supernatural explanation of the world to a more rational view of how the world and heavens worked.
		Until that time the Greeks view of the heaven and earth were based on a belief in a pantheon of Greek Gods who's actions were responsible for all that was.
		However the Greek philosopher Aristotle observed that the earth cast a curved shadow on the moon and that the Earth must therefore be a sphere.
	www.frontiertrails.com /space/greek.html (943 words)

	Greek Philosophy
		Greek colonies came to ring the Aegean and Black Seas, the southern coast of Italy, eastern Sicily, Cyrenaica in Libya, and in places on the coast of Gaul (modern France) and northeastern Spain.
		The clue to what happened in the Greek cities may be found in something else that seems to be a unique characteristic of Greek history: By the time we know much about events, traditional kings in Greeks cities are mostly gone.
		Greek philosophy began in Ionia (today on the west coast of Turkey), in the wealthiest and most active cities of their time in Greece.
	www.friesian.com /greek.htm (12972 words)

	J.H. Lesher, The Greek Philosophers: selected Greek texts from the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle. London: Bristol ...
		This is not so much a sourcebook for the study of Greek philosophy, as a coursebook or reader written with the specific aim of providing a selection of texts suitable for study in the original Greek.
		A large part of the three hours is however going to be spent in exposition of the philosophical arguments and the philosophical context of the extracts.
		Ch.16, on the Unmoved Mover in Metaphysics *L, is introduced by a discussion of the relation between study of substance in general and study of the supreme substance, and of the systematic nature of Aristotle's thought as a whole.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1999_orig/1999-01-12-beta.html (1419 words)

	Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophers: WSM explains Greek Philosophers Philosophy: All is One and Active-Flux-Motion
		What gave these men the right to be considered philosophers, unlike the other astronomers, geographers and doctors who were active especially in the latter half of the period, was their common assumption that the world possessed some kind of integral unity and determinability which could be understood and explained in rational terms.
		Greek philosophy seems to begin with a preposterous fancy, with the proposition that water is the origin and mother-womb of all things.
		The Ancient Greek Philosophers were often very close to the truth, as reflected in Parmenides realisation that the One existent is material (substance), extended (Space) and a Sphere (caused by matter as Spherical Waves in Space).
	www.spaceandmotion.com /Greek-Philosophy-Philosophers.htm (8610 words)

	ipedia.com: Aristotle Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was this dogma that was rejected by the philosophers of the early modern period, such as Galileo and Descartes.
		Called by Roman Catholics the greatest of pagan Philosophers, born at Stagira, a Grecian colony in the Macedonian peninsula Chalcidice, 384 B.C.; died at Chalcis, in Euboea, 322 B.C. His father, Nicomachus, was court physician to King Amyntas of Macedonia.
		For Aristotle, therefore, philosophic method implies the ascent from the study of particular phenomena to the knowledge of essences, while for Plato philosophic method means the descent from a knowledge of universal ideas to a contemplation of particular imitations of those ideas.
	www.ipedia.com /aristotle.html (2939 words)

	Greek Philosophers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Greek Philosophers is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		It becomes obvious from what precedes that the philosophical idea which formed the core of the teaching of the ancient initiated atomists was that their atoms or "indivisibles" are pretty close to what theosophical occultism calls monads; and this is what Democritus and Leucippus and others of their school had in mind.
		One of the most influential figures in Western thought, he was the preeminent philosophic and scientific authority for medieval Arabs and Europeans, and still remains authoritative in the field of logic.
	www.experiencefestival.com /greek_philosophers (1556 words)

	Greek philosophers
		From now on, philosophers started to use the epics of Homer and the tragedies of Euripides as if they were philosophical treatises.
		After the age of Posidonius of Apamea, it was not uncommon that philosophers from one school borrowed concepts and ideas from other branches of philosophy.
		His philosophy was adopted by the fathers of the church Ambrose and Augustine, and was to remain the philosophical school par excellence until Aristotle of Stagira was rediscovered in the twelfth century.
	www.livius.org /gi-gr/greeks/philosophers.html (2606 words)

	Science and Human Values - Pre-Socratic Philosophers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In politics he shrewdly urged a political union of the various Greek Cities of lonia (the modem southwest coast of Turkey), of which Miletus was one, for self-defense against the encroaching non-Greek kingdom of Lydia.
		He is supposed to have been the first Greek to distinguish clearly between planets (such as Mars and Venus) and stars, and to have maintained that the rainbow was a natural phenomenon rather than a goddess.
		He was also the first Greek philosopher to point out that the sun, moon, and various planets did not partake of the uniform motion of the stars, but that each had a path of its own.
	www.rit.edu /~flwstv/presocratic.html (4057 words)

	The First Greek Philosophers
		It is interesting to notice the similarity of the method used by these early Greek philosophers to that of H.P.B. In the early pages of The Secret Doctrine three fundamental propositions appear in a summarized form, to be illustrated and elaborated throughout the work.
		The early Greek philosophers followed the same plan, proceeding by gradual stages from the first proposition to the second, and from the second to the third.
		Although the majority of modern philosophers are willing to admit that every known type of philosophy finds its prototype in the early Greek schools, the old philosophers are often accused of generalization, of a lack of system, and of scientific ignorance.
	www.wisdomworld.org /additional/ancientlandmarks/FirstGreekPhilosophers.html (2178 words)

	Greek Philosophy: Pre-Socratic Philosophy
		What we generally call "Greek philosophy" was almost certainly derived by the Greeks from Egyptian culture, particularly natural science (physics and math) which preoccupied Greek thought up to the time of Plato.
		Whether the Greeks travelled to Egypt or whether the Egyptians colonized or visited Greece at some point (which is what the ancient Greeks thought) is a difficult question to answer.
		Philosophers of antiquity have nothing but bad things to say about the Sophists (even though it is extremely likely that Thucydides adhered to Sophistic principles) and we share this attitude.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/GREECE/PRESOC.HTM (1515 words)

	Greek Philosophers, the fathers of Philosophy.
		Ancient Greek Philosophers created the science of philosophy that most western philosophical thought originates from in today's world.
		The three greatest Greek philosophers lived during and immediately after the "Golden Age of Athens".
		Greek Philosophies in the Alexandrian period had a great impact on both the Roman empire and early Christianity with its emphasis on ethics.
	www.greek.go-thassos.gr (465 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.03.12
		We call them philosophers because they attempted to explain all things -- literally everything, the universe, to pan --, and 'philosopher' is the only term we have ever had for people adventuresome enough to engage in that kind of investigation.
		In the end, we are left with a sense that the philosophical importance of the sophists was more as challengers to the assumptions of the philosophers than as contributors to their projects.
		Finally, all of the early Greek philosophers are implicitly poetic as a result of their educational system which was focused on Homer and Hesiod.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-03-12.html (4393 words)

	AngliaCampus : Greek scholars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The early Greeks explained the things that happened to them by linking them to the gods, but by about 500 BC the Greeks were beginning to ask questions about the world around them, and to search for answers to the questions.
		These people were called philosophers, which means "lover of knowledge" in Greek.
		During this time of Greek history the scholars learnt much about geography, astronomy, medicine, history and maths.
	www.angliacampus.com /public/pri/history/greeks/page23.htm (188 words)

	Greek Philosophers and Aristophanes by Sanderson Beck
		Greek religion from at least the time of Hesiod had a divinity called Peace (Irene), and in this cult animal sacrifices were not allowed.
		The first well-known martyr of recorded history and the first philosopher known to have been executed by a state, Socrates positively worked for good and did not resist with any form of violence the evil threats and actions taken against him.
		Tragically the heroic battles that the Greeks fought in self-defense against the Persian invasions of 490 and 480 BC were later followed by the Peloponnesian War between the Greek city states of Athens and Sparta and their respective allies.
	www.san.beck.org /GPJ4-GreekPhilosophers.html (9166 words)

	Greek materialism and pantheism: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes
		The earliest Greek philosophers all came from one small area on the Ionic coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey.
		Most of the first philosophers thought that principles in the from of matter were the only principles of things.
		SCIENTIFIC PANTHEISM is proud to recognize the Greek and Roman materialism of the Miletans, Heraklitus, Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius as its predecessors.
	members.aol.com /Heraklit1/greekmat.htm (1178 words)

	Greece and the Greek Islands Travel Bookstore
		Assuming no knowledge of Greek or prior knowledge of the subject, this volume provides new readers with the most convenient and accessible guide to early Greek philosophy available.
		This book is a study of ancient views about "moral luck." It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives.
		The Greeks made a profound contribution to these questions, yet neither the problems nor the Greek views of them have received the attention they deserve.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /MJBookstore/greece-philosophy-philosophy.html (420 words)

	Greek Revival -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Greek temples, which spread throughout Europe and the United States during the first half of the 19th century.
		At the root of Greek art was the desire to explore man and the nature of his experience.
		Macedonia is considered the birthplace of the Greek race and of the twelve Greek gods.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037931 (875 words)

	Ancient Greek Skepticism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		There are skeptical elements in the views of many Greek philosophers, but the term 'ancient skeptic' is generally applied either to a member of Plato's Academy during its skeptical period (c.
		Epicureans, but these arguments have been highly influential for subsequent philosophers and will continue to be of great interest as long as there is widespread disagreement regarding important philosophical issues.
		Cicero was a lifelong student and practitioner of Academic philosophy and his philosophical dialogues are among the richest sources of information about the skeptical Academy.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/s/skepanci.htm (11197 words)

	Greek Philosophers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All three philosophers believed that man would be much happier if he was part of a State rather than on his own.
		These three philosophers believed that if man could be more productive by specializing in something that they are suited for they would be happier.
		Even though all three philosophers were similar in their political beliefs about man not being self-sufficient and that man would be most happy in a State.
	www.4essays.com /essays/GREEK_PH.HTM (980 words)

	STEFAN STENUDD - Table of Greek Philosophers. Cosmos of the Ancients -----------
		bove is a simple table of the Greek philosophers treated above, giving their year of flourishing, their teacher, and a keyword to what type of theory they had regarding the gods and the myths about them.
		In many cases the year of their prime, as well as that of their birth and death, is rather uncertain — if very much so, I have noted it with a question mark.
		It would not, from this simple table, be daring to state that the belief of the Greek philosophers in their gods was waning, if at all any stronger to begin with.
	www.stenudd.com /myth/greek/table.htm (619 words)

	Ancient Greek Philosophers
		Anaximander, a Miletian thought to have been 64 years old in 546 B.C., maintained that the 4 Elements known to the Greeks (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) were manifestations of an underlying primal substance: Goat.
		An aristocratic Athenian born in 428-7 B.C., Plato was born in the early years of the Peloponesian War.
		Founder of the Academy, he was, perhaps, the most influential philosopher of all time.
	www.goatism.org /greeks.htm (608 words)

	Diogenes Laertius [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Diogenes Laertius, native of Laerte in Cilicia, was a biographer of ancient Greek philosophers.
		He divides all the Greek philosophers into two classes: those of the Ionic and those of the Italic school.
		Especially when Diogenes is setting down amusing or scandalous stories about the lives and deaths of various philosophers which are supposed to serve as fitting illustrations of their thought, the reader should be wary.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/d/dioglaer.htm (319 words)

	A beginner’s bibliography of early Greek philosophy
		Notice that some of the early Greek philosophers are commonly referred to as ‘Presocratics’, because many (though not all) lived before the Socrates, and because philosophy is supposed to have taken on a radically different character after Socrates and his pupil Plato.
		The early Greek philosophers are referred to according to a standard set of citations which were devised by a nineteenth century German philologist, Hermann Diels, and his associate Walter Kranz.
		The first number,‘22’, indicates the philosopher, in this case Heraclitus; the following letter indicates whether the fragment is (A) testimony or (B) an actual quotation or paraphrase; the final number indicates the fragment number.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~mojohnso/egp.htm (632 words)

	Search Results for Plato - Encyclopædia Britannica
		It may be significant that the only dialogue later than the Theaetetus in which Socrates takes a leading part is the Philebus, the one work of the second group that deals primarily with the ethical...
		Greek philosopher, who with his teacher Socrates and his student...
		Essay on the contribution of this philosopher to mathematics and geometry.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Plato&ticker (560 words)

	My Thoughts on Two Greek Philosophers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Epicurus was a Greek philosopher who lived from about 341 - 270 BC.
		Epicurus must have recognized that two of the things that keeps people from being happy is fear of the gods, (remember, this is back in Greek time when you had lots and lots of gods) and fear of death.
		I think Epicurus' philosophies are a help when one is content, and looking for direction on where to go, and that Epictetus' philosophies are directed more at those who would otherwise be uncontent with their life.
	www.smokylake.com /Christy/ep.htm (650 words)

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