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A sophist was a man who made his living by teaching things that would be useful to them and are not taught in regular curriculum. As ther...

Leucippus and Democritus are considered to be the founders of Atomism. Though Democritus place is later in the chronology, along with Soc...

Anaxagoras was born at Clazomenae, in Ionia, about the year 500 B.C. He spent about thirty years of his life in Athens around 462 B.C to ...

Attica at the beginning of the historical period was a self supporting agricultural region. It's capital was a small town inhabited by ...

Empedocles lived around 440 BC in Acreages’, on the south coast of Sicily. He was a younger contemporary of Parmenides, though his doctri...

Parmenides was native of Elea, in southern Italy. His date is uncertain but it is said that young Socrates met him when Parmenides was 65...

Xenophanes’ date is uncertain between c 570 - 475 BCE. He was from Colophon, a city in the region of Lydia, but lived most of his life i...

In 6th century BC, Island of Samos was a commercial rival to Miletus. Polycrates became the tyrant of Samos in around 535 BC. Polycrates...

Greek philosophy started in Miletus in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) with Thales. Miletus like other commercial cities of Ionia underwent...

A philosopher’s thought is influenced by the surrounding in which he lives. Just like a particular type of soil supports particular plants...

It happens with me and I presume it must be happening with others too. When I talk to someone and while conversing I discover that he has s...

Periodization of any evolutionary phenomena is always subjective and hence certainly moot. But then there are certain features which are so ...

When I was a child, every summer, like most of my friends I would visit my grandparents. My paternal grandfather lived in a village about 80...

Background Towards the end of 15th Century, around the time when Columbus was in pursuit of discovering India, Ferdinand the King of Spain,...