Description: A survey of ancient Western philosophy from Thales through Plotinus. Selected readings, examinations, and essays on the pre-Socratic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and ...

Xenophanes was the ancient Greek philosopher who boldly challenged traditional views of the gods and questioned divine ...

He founded Western philosophy in the sense that all intellectual inquiry before him is deemed to be “pre-Socratic” and all Western philosophy since him, in the words of Alfred North Whitehead ...

Philosophy, along with mathematics and logic, is one of humanity’s oldest intellectual disciplines. And since its inception — which in the West usually dates back to the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher ...