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This philosophy used to offer a rational explanation of the reality of nature and proposed the existence of one or many substances called "arche". Important phylosophers: Thales,Heraclitus,Parmenides and Democritus.
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The Sophists were orators and public speakers. They were gifted with speech. They were skilled in what becomes known as Rhetoric. They were respected, feared and hated. -
Philosophy changed it focus from the natural area to humans and their way of living in society. Important philosophers:Sophists,Socrates,Plato and Aristotle.
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Philosphy was divided into two tendences: Moral philosphy in Athens, where Epicurean and Stoic (Important schools of philosophy) where created and the investigation of the natural world in Alexandria. Important philosophers: Epicurus,Zeno,Euclid and Archimedes.
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There were plenty of attemps to create a synthesis between philosophy and Christianity. Important philosophers: Plotinus,Pophyry and Augustine of Hippo.
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At the beginning of this period there was a cultural stanstill. After the 9th century, culture started to prosper and a way of thought named scholasticism was created. It adressed the relationship between faith and reason, rational evidence for the existence of god and the inmortality of souls. The main philosopher was Saint Thomas Aquinas.
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Classical Greco-Roman authors were explored and studied. Modern science was developed in the scientific revolution.Humanism is conceived of as an exaltation of the value of humanity. Important philosophers: Galileo Galilei,Newton.
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Philosophers focused their interert on quetion related to the unknowledge of reality. Teo essential branches of philosophy emerged: Racionalism (Descartes,Spinoza and Leibniz)) which defend the supremacy of reason over the senses in gaining knowledge and Empiricists (Locke and Hume) which maintain that reliable knowledge can come only from information senses give to us.
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During this period philosophy believed that society had to be improved. Philosophers said that it would be achieved by educating the population and cultivating freetought. Kant proposed a combination of rationalism and empiricism. Important philosophers: Rousseau,Voltaire and Kant.
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It is characterised by having diverse philosophical trends.Attention was focused on particular aspects of reality. Some essential themes were society,morality,history and human existence. Some of the most important philosophers were Hegel,Marx,Nietzsche(19th Century) and Russell, Wittgenstein,sartre, Ortega y Gasset and Habermas (20th Century).
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Phenomenology,Existentialism,Analytical Philosophy,Structuralism, Hermeneutics,Frankfurt School,Post-structuralism,Science and technology studies and several trends of feminism.
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