Philosophers

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  • Period: 469 BCE to 399 BCE

    Socrates

    • History: he served as a hoplite in the Athenian army and fought bravely in several important battles. Had a distinct courageous personality being attracted to young men, and drinking wine without getting drunk. He was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth morale.
    • Thoughts: he established the principles of ethical research processes and philosophy overall.
    • Infuence: his legacy made philosophy grow and expand through his many disciples and his way of building knowledge.
  • Period: 460 BCE to 370 BCE

    Hippocrates

    • History: was a Greek physician and scientist, who was considered the father of modern medicine, despite having a focus on spirituality.
    • Thoughts: his writings, known as the Corpus Hippocraticum, provide information on biomedical methodology and a code of professional ethics, through scientific methods, disease classifying, and looking for the root causes of illness.
    • Influence: he ditched the concept based on priests and praying to Asclepius, moving to our modern vision.
  • Period: 427 BCE to 348 BCE

    Plato

    • History: was a Greek Socrates student who continued his legacy and expanded his philosophic principles.
    • Thoughts: his main ideas were the eternal ideal of what should be and the physical world as we perceive it.
    • Influence: his contributions contributions span many philosophical subfields, including ethics, cosmology, and metaphysics.
  • Period: 412 BCE to 323 BCE

    Diogenes

    • History: he believed himself as superior to all Greek education, was homeless, and lived in an earthenware jar.
    • Thoughts: he believed life was shameful and unbearable, and defended self subsistence. He went against everything that was commonly accepted by society like the materialistic economy and gods in general. He believed in reducing needs to the minimum.
    • Influence: he had a big role in the way of treating other people in modern days.
  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle

    • History: was a Greek philosopher and scientist. Alongside Plato, is considered the father of Western philosophy.
    • Thoughts: he proposed the idea of getting knowledge from experience and is recognized as the father of logic. He established that humans are rational beings composed of body and soul.
    • Influence: he made a big impact in many knowledge areas such as biology, politics, psychology, and meteorology.
  • Period: 4 BCE to 65

    Seneca

    • History: he was exiled to Corsica accused of adultery and later committed suicide for allegedly being involved in the conjuring of Piso.
    • Thoughts: he made various contributions to stoicism, mainly from physics. He found an explanation for all of Earth’s phenomena. He also explained the human dilemma of pleasure and virtue, and the ingulgence of imperfection.
    • Influence: his ideologies were related to Christianity, and he even lived through the crucifixion of Jesus.