Pre-Socratics Plotinus: Founder Of Neo-Platonism Written by Ed Whalen, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Plotinus (205-70 AD) was one of the most important philosophers of late Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science Written by Ed Whalen, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom The pre-Socratic Atomists were a group of ancient thinkers who proposed a Three Pre-Socratics You’ve Likely Never Heard Of By David Hooker, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom As I read and re-read the philosophers, tragedians, poets, and other commentators of Love and Strife: Empedocles' Universe By David Hooker, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Who hasn’t looked up into a sky full of stars and wondered what Leucippus, Democritus, and Atomism By Jacob Bell, Associate Editor, Classical Wisdom Most folks know something about atomic theory... its surprising ancient history, however, is Protagoras & Relativism By Jacob Bell, Associate Editor, Classical Wisdom “Man is the measure of all things…” It is likely that you have Anaxagoras and His Mind By Monica Correa, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom In ancient Greece, the idea of a flat earth was simply assumed to Xenophanes and the Singular God Xenophanes of Colophon was a traveling poet and philosopher who preceded Socrates by over a century. As is common with Anaximander's Boundless Universe Anaximander is often considered to be the first philosopher, at least in some circles. The more popular opinion, which is Heraclitus: The Fire And The Flux By Van Bryan Heraclitus was born in Ephesus, an important ancient city located on the Ionian Coast, in about 535