Historic Philosophers

There are a lot of great philosophers in the world, modern and ancient. In Ancient Greece there were many philosophers. Some of these philosophers are Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Pythagoras and Heraclitus to name a few. These philosophers are known as the Pre Socratic philosophers beginning in the sixth Century BC. There are known as this because they came before Socrates and it is said that ancient Greek philosophy should be organized around Socrates and Plato. But the three main ancient Greek philosophers were Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The Pre Socratic philosophers were more about the natural life philosophies while these three philosophers were more into the people. These three philosophers are intertwined together because Plato was the student of Socrates, while Aristotle went to the Academy that Plato founded. Plato used a lot of Socrates teachings and lessons he learned and when he opened his Academy he used these teaching as a stepping stone to the curriculum.

Parmenides of Elea the son of Peirethos (520/510 BC) was born in Elea, a Greek city in southern Italy. Parmenides is the founder of the Eleatic school. His philosophy was known as Eleatic philosophy due to where he was born. Parmenides philosophy is based on rationalism. A lot of Parmenides work is not written down so we depend on others have been passed down to them. “He assumed that any proposition that is logically necessary or self-evident must be admitted as true. By logically necessary or self-evident is meant that one cannot deny the proposition logically necessary proposition always has epistemological priority over any proposition about Being derived from sense data; no matter how at odds with the world of common sense it may be, a necessary proposition must always take precedence” According to Prof. Barry D Smith from Atlantic Baptist University. Parmenides basically had two types of explanations the truth and the popular opinion. Basically that reality must be single and