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Parmenides

Parmenides was a Greek philosopher from Elea whose poem On Nature argued that true being is ungenerated, unchanging, and indivisible.

Philosopher Ancient Greek Presocratic Being

Heraclitus

Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher from Ephesus, active around 500 BCE, notable for doctrines of constant change and the logos.

Philosopher Change Ancient Greek Presocratic

Anaximander

Anaximander was a 6th-century BCE Milesian philosopher who proposed the apeiron as the origin of things and made an early Greek world map.

Philosopher Cosmology Ancient Greek Presocratic

Thales of Miletus

Thales of Miletus was a Greek philosopher from Ionia, active in the 6th century BCE, often regarded as the first Western philosopher.

Philosopher Cosmology Ancient Greek Presocratic

Empedocles

Empedocles was a Greek philosopher from Acragas who taught that four roots, earth, air, fire, and water, combine through Love and Strife.

Philosopher Ancient Greek Presocratic Pluralism

Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras was a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher who brought Ionian inquiry to Athens and made Nous, or mind, a cosmic ordering principle.

Philosopher Ancient Greek Presocratic Mind

Leucippus

Leucippus was a Greek philosopher traditionally credited as the founder of atomism, the theory that reality consists of indivisible atoms.

Philosopher Ancient Greek Presocratic Atomism

Anaximenes

Anaximenes was a Milesian philosopher of the 6th century BCE who argued that air was the primary substance behind natural change.

Philosopher Cosmology Ancient Greek Presocratic

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