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Philo of Alexandria A remarkable man, Philo of Alexandria. When Jesus was born he was about 20 years old, living in Alexandria. Son of a rich Jewish family of priests. He died in 50 C.E. He was well educated in two cultures, the Judaian and the Greek culture. And he used the......Read More

Posted on: 2007-11-02 04:33:17 | Rating:

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca To me this project of introducing 100 philosophers is an interesting experience. In the first place you, my audience, from Sweden to Newzealand. And in the second place philosophically. As a young student I studied the history of philosophy of course. Did an......Read More

Posted on: 2007-11-05 10:57:49 | Rating:

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Marcus Aurelius Today about Marcus Aurelius..even a philosopher / emperor.... But I thought it might be more interesting to look somewhat closer at Stoicism as well. Marcus Aurelius was born AD 121and he was a Stoic.What did that mean inthose days? We are discussing here......Read More

Posted on: 2007-11-07 01:54:11 | Rating:

| Views: 49 | Comments: 0 | Tags: stoicism roman philosophy

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Sextus Empiricus It all looks such a clear development of mind....from the Greek till Marcus Aurelius, but they were always there too: the Skeptics, the people that question all that socalled knowledge of all those philosophers, that so called certainty. And Sextus Empiricus,......Read More

Posted on: 2007-11-11 18:30:28 | Rating:

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Plotinus Who was Plotinus. He lived from 204 to 270 AD, Born in Egypte and when he was about 40 he was apponted as teacher in Rome. What does he has to tell? He was in a sense a remarkable man. Like all Romans he wasnt an original thinker, but he was a good teacher......Read More

Posted on: 2007-11-12 04:03:33 | Rating:

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Saint Augustine of Hippo To be honest...if it were for me he wouldnt have been on our 100 list but if it were for history he has to be. Augustine, born in North Africa..and died there too in 430 AD You might wonder why I wouldnt put him on my list....well that is the......Read More

Posted on: 2007-11-14 03:27:26 | Rating:

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Boethius Today we may relax, Boethius was born in 480 AD and didnt get older than 44. Then he was executed by Theoderic, then ruler of ..say Italy. His father in law and a pope followed in his footsteps to the grave. A real waste, for Boethius was a remarkable man, un upperclass kid......Read More

Posted on: 2007-11-21 00:20:33 | Rating:

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Anselmus Boethius died in 524 AD. The philosopher , who has our attention now was born 1033 AD. Five hunder years later??!! What had happened in the 500 years inbetween? Well...very simple..Europe was a mess...It wasnt a world with clearly defined states like we know now. It was a......Read More

Posted on: 2007-11-21 00:22:33 | Rating:

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Thomas Aquinas (Universals I) In our class we try to follow the development of the mind through the ages and we try to understand what happened and why things happened. The Greek discovered reason and logic, Their mythological view on reality is replaced by a reasoned interpretation.......Read More

Posted on: 2007-11-21 05:47:26 | Rating:

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Thomas Aquinas (Universals II) Universals are a class of mind independent entitties. They are responsable for qualitative relations and resemblance among individuals (individual objects). A plum and a flower are both purple for instance. If they are purple at the same time they......Read More