Philosophers

Philosophers

Philosophers are people who study philosophy through asking, analysing and attempting to answer philosophical questions.

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Anaximenes

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Anaximenes was a 6th century Greek philosopher, a younger contemporary of Anaximander, who believed that air was the underlying component of everything.

Parmenides

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Parmenides of Elea in southern Italy was a Greek philosopher and the founder of the Eleatic School.

Empedocles

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Empedocles was a Greek philosopher, the first to assert the four elements of the universe were earth, air, fire, and water.

Leucippus

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Leucippus developed the atomist theory, which explained that all matter is made up of indivisible particles.

Xenophanes

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Xenophanes was a Greek philosopher who speculated, based on fossils sea shells found on mountain tops, that the surface of the Earth must have risen and fallen.

Heraclitus

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Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher who considered fire to be the primary form of the real world. According to him, everything is in the process of flux (panta rhei).