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unusual facts about Greek philosophy



Jiyuan Yu

His primary areas of research and teaching include Ancient Greek Philosophy (esp. Plato, Aristotle), and Ancient Chinese Philosophy (esp. Classical Confucianism).

Phi Sigma Tau

The emblem of Phi Sigma Tau is in the shape of a pentagon; each of the five angles contains a symbol that represents one of the five streams of world thought: Chinese, Indian, Islamic, Hebrew, and Greek.


see also

Commentaries on Plato

Eduard Zeller, (1895), Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy.

John Anton

John P. Anton (born 1920), professor of Greek philosophy and culture at the University of South Florida

Laurence Caruana

After completing his studies in German and ancient Greek Philosophy (B.A. from the University of Toronto 1985), he learned classical painting techniques at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 1990).

Newton's laws of motion

The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle had the view that all objects have a natural place in the universe: that heavy objects (such as rocks) wanted to be at rest on the Earth and that light objects like smoke wanted to be at rest in the sky and the stars wanted to remain in the heavens.

Nicole C. Karafyllis

Nicole C. Karafyllis (* 1970 in Lüdinghausen, Westfalia, Germany), is a German-Greek philosopher and biologist.

Renn Hampden

Among the more important of his later writings were the articles on Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, contributed to the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and afterwards reprinted with additions under the title of The Fathers of Greek Philosophy (Edinburgh, 1862).

Tetrabiblos

Uniting these Aristotelian principles with a prevalent Greek philosophy employed by Zeno of Citium and the Pythagoreans, the next three chapters arrange the planets into pairs of opposites.

Theoktistos

It was during this regency that Leo the Mathematician, Photios who taught Greek Philosophy, and later Constantine-Cyril, taught at the university.