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Pre-Socratic philosophy

Pre-Socratic philosophy, also known as early Greek philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates. Pre-Socratic philosophers were mostly interested in cosmology, the beginning and the substance of the universe, but the inquiries of these early philosophers spanned the workings of the natural world as well as human society, ethics, and religion.…

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Pre-Socratic philosophy → Alcmaeon, Alexander, Alexandrians, America Press, Anaxagoras, Ancient Greek, André, April, Aristotle's Account, Atheism, Bacon's Third Sailing, Barnes, Barry, Beginning, Bibcode, Burkert, Business Media, Cambridge University Press, Carl, Catherine
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Pre-Socratic philosophy → Anatolia, Ancient Greece, Apart, Aristotle, Athens, BC, Classical Era, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Greeks, Ionia, Ionian, Mesopotamia, Miletus, Persian, Persian Achaemenid Empire, Persians, Philosophy, Plato
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Pre-Socratic philosophy → Also, An, Aristotelian, Depending, In, It, Many, Socratic, Socratics, The, Their, They
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Pre-Socratic philosophy → An, Hippocrates, It, Milesian, Physicians, Pre-Socratic, Prior, Socratic, Socratics, The
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Pre-Socratic philosophy → Collections Containing Articles, PhilPapers, Presocratic PhilosophyPre-Socratic

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Diogenes Laërtiusinstance ofThe knowledge we have of the pre-Socratics derives from the accounts of later writers0.80text
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and Simpliciusinstance ofThe knowledge we have of the pre-Socratics derives from the accounts of later writers0.80text
and some early Christian theologiansinstance ofThe knowledge we have of the pre-Socratics derives from the accounts of later writers0.80text
especially Clement of Alexandriainstance ofThe knowledge we have of the pre-Socratics derives from the accounts of later writers0.80text
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