Pre-Socratic

8 philosophers

The first philosopher in Western history. Predicted a solar eclipse in 585 BC. Fell into a...

You cannot step into the same river twice. Everything flows is his central doctrine. Known...

Argued that change and motion are illusions. Being is, non-being is not. His poem On Natur...

More than a mathematician, he founded a religious and philosophical community. Believed in...

Student of Thales who wrote the first surviving prose book in philosophy. Introduced the a...

The first critic of anthropomorphic religion. If horses had hands, he joked, they would dr...

Defended Parmenides with paradoxes designed to prove motion is impossible. Achilles can ne...

The laughing philosopher who found human affairs comic. Co-founded atomism with Leucippus:...