AncientGreekphilosopher.doc

The Ancient Greek philosophers have played a pivotal role in the shaping of the western philosophical tradition. This article surveys the seminal works and ideas of key figures in the Ancient Greek philosophical tradition from the Presocratics to the Neoplatonists. It highlights their main philosophical concerns and the evolution in their thought from the sixth century BCE to the sixth century CE. The Ancient Greek philosophical tradition broke away from a mythological approach to explaining the world, and it initiated an approach based on reason and evidence. Initially concerned with explaining the entire cosmos, the Presocratic philosophers strived to identify its single underlying principle. Their theories were diverse and none achieved a consensus, yet their legacy was the initiation of the quest to identify underlying principles. This sparked a series of investigations into the limit and role of reason and of our sensory faculties, how knowledge is acquired and what knowledge consists of. Here we find the Greek creation of philosophy as “the love of wisdom,” and the birth of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were the most influential of the ancient Greek philosophers, and they focused their attention more on the role of the human being than on the explanation of the material world. The work of these key philosophers was succeeded by the Stoics and Epicureans who were also concerned with practical aspects of philosophy and the attainment of happiness. Other notable successors are Pyrrhos school of skepticism and the Neoplatonists such as Plotinus who tried to unify Platos thought with theology. 古希腊哲学家在塑造西方哲学传统有举足轻重的作用。这篇文章调查的开创性著作和思想的古希腊哲学传统从苏格拉底到?Neoplatonists?中的关键人物。它突出了哲学关注的主要问题和他们的思想，从公元前六世纪到公元六世纪的演变。 古希腊哲学传统打破神话的方式解释世界，，它开创了一种基于的理由和证据。最初关注与解释整个宇宙，像前苏格拉底时代哲学家努力查明其单一的基本原则。他们的理论了多样和没有达成共识，他们的遗产也没有开始寻求确定的基本原则。 这引发了一系列的调查作用与限制的原因和我们感官的能力、?知识是如何和什么知识组成。在这里我们找到了希腊哲学的产生作为爱智慧与形而上学、?认识论和伦理学的诞生。苏格拉底、?柏拉图和亚里斯多德是最具影响力的古希腊哲学家们，和他们把注意力更