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A short history of Epictetus

One of the 5 "Good Emperors" of Rome.

The philosophy of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius can be found in a collection of personal writings known as the Meditations. These reflect the influence of Stoicism and, in particular, the philosophy of Epictetus, the Stoic. The Meditations may be read as a series of practical philosophical exercises, following Epictetus' three topics of study, designed to digest and put into practice philosophical theory.

Informative website about Chuang Tzu and his philosophies.

This is an online encyclopedia that focuses on philosophy.

Great summary of The Apology.

The science of physics, Aristotle stresses, contains almost all there is to know about the world. Were there no separate forms-entities such as the unmoved mover at the pinnacle of the cosmos-which are without matter and are not part of the physical world, physics would be what Aristotle calls first philosophy ( Metaphysics 6.1, 1026a27-31).

Aristotle's Physics

Physics: Books I to IV The Physics takes its title from the Greek word phusis, which translates more accurately as "the order of nature." The first two books of the Physics are Aristotle's general introduction to the study of nature.

A Informative website about Hippocrates as well as a list of additional resources

A clear and logical summary of the ancient theological writings of St. Thomas Aquinas.

The Canterbury Tales and the Medieval Tradition of Encyclopedic Works. The huge masterpiece by Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, comes from a tradition of long, encyclopedic style works in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Philosophers and theologians in the Middle Ages, particularly in the 12 and 1300s, wrote "sums" of all their knowledge concerning philosophy or...

Great overview of the writings. Summarized each part in a very concise manner.

Guide to Buddhist beliefs & practices, teachings of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama & Dalai Lama. Buddhism philosphy & ethics. Buddhism, Zen quotes.

Guide to Buddhist beliefs & practices, teachings of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama & Dalai Lama. Buddhism philosphy & ethics. Buddhism, Zen quotes.

Born in 384 B.C.E. in the Macedonian region of northeastern Greece in the small city of Stagira (whence the moniker 'the Stagirite'), Aristotle was sent to Athens at about the age of seventeen to study in Plato's Academy, then a pre-eminent place of learning in the Greek world.

Democritus, a brilliant philosopher known for his conception of atoms and matter but also for the theories he put forward about the universe.

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