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Parmenides Philosopher (510-450 BC)

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Parmenides (510-450 BC)                 Parmenides of Elea was born around 515 BC in Elea, Italy. He died around the year 450 BC, but the place of death is unknown. He was a Greek philosopher. According to Plato, at the age of 65 years, along with Parmenides Zeno visiting Athens for dialogue with Socrates Socrates which at that time was still young. The works of Parmenides is poetry.                 Not much is known about the life of Parmenides. He is often considered the founder of philosophy Eleatik ,, and it is estimated that Zeno of Elea and Melissus of Samos is among his students, and he himself was a pupil of Xenophanes. Parmenides though younger, was a contemporary of Heraclitus whose philosophy is contrary to the philosophy of Parmenides. In the opinion of Parmenides, which is referred to as reality is not motion and change. Th...

SOCRATES PHILOSOPHER (469-399 BC)

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SOCRATES (469-399 BC)                 Socrates was a Greek philosopher and is considered the father of Western philosophy. Plato was a pupil of the most famous and later taught Aristotle. Aristotle taught Alexander the Great later. With this development it can be concluded that Greek philosophy was first developed by Socrates, which later spread throughout the world has ever conquered by Alexander the Great.                 Socrates was born in 469/470 BC, his father was a sculptor named Sophronicus, and his mother was Phaenarete, a midwife. Socrates studied music, gymnastics, and grammar when he was young (subjects generally studied young children Yunanai) and then followed his father's profession as a sculptor. It is said that he is an amazing artist, and Graces statue, which was built on the road to the Acropolis has been admired by ...

Confucius (770-481 BC)

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Confucius (770-481 BC)                 Confucius (K'ung - fu - tzu or Kongfuzi) (770-481 BC), according to tradition was born on September 28 in 551 BC in the state of Lu, located in the Shandong Peninsula in northeast China and died in 479 BC. It says "tradition" because it is difficult to distinguish between the Confucius Life story factual and legendary. Confucius was a famous Chinese thinker and educator, comparable with Socrates in the West, which developed the social and political philosophy which is often regarded as a basic premise of China next. He is the founder of "Ru" schools of thought and philosophy of China was then called Confucianism, comes from the tradition and recorded fragments of an ancient text, Lunyu. One of the most famous concept is often cited as follows: "Do not treat others what you yourself do not want to be treated like that. "As mentioned, it is difficult to trace the history of C...