Some Philosophers and their Theories

• The Pre-Socratic Philosophers
  • Parmenides of Elea (c.515-after 450 BCE): On Nature (Peri Physis)
    
    
• Stoicism
  • Philosophy Of Antoninus
  
  
• Aristotle
  • The Four Causes, [At WSU]
  • Aristotle (384-323 BCE): : On Generation and Corruption.[At MIT]
  
  
• Euclid
  • The Elements
  
  
• Neo-Platonism: A source of incredible possibilities for any Ars Magica saga. this is a brief outline of many of the salient individuals involved.
  
  
• Justin Martyr: (b. c. 100, Flavia Neapolis, Palestine [now Nabulus]--d. c. 165, Rome; feast day June 1), one of the most important of the Greek philosopher-Apologists in the early Christian church. His writings represent the first positive encounter of Christian revelation with Greek philosophy and laid the basis for a theology of history.
  
  
• Origen -- Latin in full OREGENES ADAMANTIUS (b. c. 185, probably Alexandria, Egypt--d. c. 254, Tyre, Phoenicia [now Sur, Lebanon])
  
  
• Gregory of Nyssa -- Latin GREGORIUS NYSSENUS (b. c. 335, Caesarea, in Cappadocia, Asia Minor [now Kayseri, Turkey]--d. c. 394; feast day March 9)
  
  
• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite(fl. c. 500), probably a Syrian monk who, known only by his pseudonym, wrote a series of Greek treatises and letters for thepurpose of uniting Neoplatonic philosophy with Christian theology and mystical experience.
  
  
• Eriugena, John Scotus also called JOHANNES SCOTUS ERIUGENA (b. 810, Ireland--d. c. 877), theologian, translator, and commentator on several earlier authors in works centring on the integration of Greek and Neoplatonist philosophy with Christian belief.
  
  
• Averroes: Medieval Latin Averrhoes, also called Ibn Rushd, Arabic infull Abu Al-walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad IbnMuhammad Ibn Rushd (b. 1126, Cordoba--d. 1198, Marrakech, Almohad Empire), influential Islamic religious philosopher who integrated Islamic traditions and Greek thought.
  
  
• Scholasticism: The all important philosophical movement in Western Europe at the time of Ars Magica
  • Peter Abelard -- Latin PETRUS ABAELARDUS, or ABEILARDUS (b. 1079, Le Pallet, near Nantes, Brittany [now in France]--d. April 21, 1142, Priory of Saint-Marcel, near Chalon-sur-Saône, Burgundy [now in France])
    • Sic et Non, excerpts, [At Clinch Valley College]
  • The School of Chartres
  • The Early 13th Century

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