Presocratic Philosophy
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Presocratic Philosophers were the first philosophers of the Western tradition. Some of this philosophers were the Milesian Thales of Miletus, Anaximander and Anaximenes, Xenophanes of Colophon and Heraclitus of Ephesus, Parmenides of Elea, his pupil Zeno of Elea, Pythagoras of Samos, the Eliastics Zeno and Melissus, the Pluralists Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and Empedocles of Acragas, the Atomists Leucippus and Democritus of Abdera and the Sophists Diogenes of Apollonia.
- Presocratic interests extended to religious and ethical thought, the nature of understanding, mathematics, meteorology, the nature of explanation, and the roles of mechanism, matter, form, and structure in the world. Almost all the Presocratics seemed to have something to say about embryology, and fragments of Diogenes and Empedocles show a keen interest in the structures of the body; the overlap between ancient philosophy and ancient medicine is of growing interest to scholars of early Greek thought [1]