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Anaximenes

Anaximenes (c. 585 - 525 B.C.) was an early Pre-Socratic philosopher from the Greek city of Miletus in Ionia (modern-day Turkey). He was a key figure in the Milesian School , a friend and pupil of Anaximander and he continued the Milesians ' philosophical inquiries into the "archê" or first principle of the universe (which Anaximenes deemed to be air), and sought to give a quasi-scientific explanation of the world. In the physical sciences, Anaximenes was the first Greek to distinguish clearly between planets and stars, and he used his principles to account for various natural phenomena, such as thunder and lightning, rainbows, earthquakes, etc.

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Ethical Naturalism

Ethical Naturalism (or Naturalistic Ethics) is the meta-ethical doctrine that there are objective moral properties of which we have empirical knowledge, but that these properties are reducible to entirely non-ethical or natural properties, such as…

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Roman

The Roman period of the Ancient era of philosophy generally continues the classical Greek tradition and is usually considered to end with the Fall of Rome in the 5th Century. It includes the following major philosophers: Traditionally, the Fall of…

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Ephesian School

The Ephesian School is a Greek Pre-Socratic school of philosophy of the 5th Century B.C., although essentially it refers to the ideas of just one man, Heraclitus (who did not have any direct disciples or successors that we are aware of), a native of…

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