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Aristotle: The Man Who Knew Everything Western Philosophy

Aristotle: The Man Who Knew Everything

The Student Who Defied His Teacher In the autumn of 367 BCE, an eighteen-year-old man arrived in Athens with nothing but a small bag of belongings…

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Socrates: The Gadfly of Athens Who Drank Hemlock for Truth Western Philosophy

Socrates: The Gadfly of Athens Who Drank Hemlock for Truth

The Man Who Never Wrote a Word He never wrote a single book. He never founded a school. He never accepted payment for his teaching. He was poor, ug…

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Plato: The Philosopher Who Shaped Western Thought Western Philosophy

Plato: The Philosopher Who Shaped Western Thought

The Cup of Hemlock In the year 399 BC, a seventy-year-old man with a snub nose and a prodigious belly sat in an Athenian prison cell, awaiting his …

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Hypatia: The Last Light of the Ancient World Women in Science

Hypatia: The Last Light of the Ancient World

Hypatia was a philosopher and mathematician who became the last light of the ancient world. The silence that echoed through history On a spring mor…

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