RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Parmenides  Hans Georg Gadamer, on of Germany's most important 20th century hermeneutical philosophers and classical scholars, emphasizes in particular the importance of Parmenedes and the Eleatics for Plato's later theory of...

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS The Ionians The very first of the Greek thinkers -- the Ionians -- lived in Asia Minor, in present day Turkey. They were speculative natural philosophers. Thales, who Aristotle considered the...

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Pythagoras Pythagoras was among the most celebrated philosophers of the Antique period. He is attributed both with being “the first to bring to the Greeks philosophy in general” (Isocrates, Ausiris 14.4; qtd in...

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS The One and the Many One of the earliest disputes of the Greek naturalists and Eleatics concerned the question of the one and the many -- that is was the substratum...