Classical Greek philosophy

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historical period of philosophy philosophical tradition

Classical Greek philosophy is the foundational period of Western thought, centered on figures like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, that established core ideas in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and political theory.

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instanceOf	historical period of philosophy → philosophical tradition →
coreIdea	primacy of reason in ethics and politics → rational inquiry into nature and human life → search for definitions of virtues → substance and causality → teleological explanation of nature → the polis as a natural community → theory of forms → virtue ethics →
followedBy	Hellenistic philosophy →
follows	Pre-Socratic philosophy →
hasCenter	Academy of Athens → surface form: Academy of Plato Athens → Ionia → Lyceum of Aristotle →
hasDiscipline	aesthetics → epistemology → ethics → logic → metaphysics → political philosophy →
hasEndTime	3rd century BCE →
hasKeyFigure	Anaxagoras → Antisthenes → Aristotle → Democritus → Diogenes of Sinope → Epicurus → Gorgias → Heraclitus → Parmenides → Plato → Plotinus → Protagoras → Pyrrho → Socrates → Xenophon → Zeno of Citium → Zeno of Elea →
hasLanguage	Ancient Greek →
hasMainRegion	Greek Antiquity → surface form: Ancient Greece
hasMethod	Socratic method → dialectic →
hasSchool	Aristotelianism → Cynicism → Epicureanism → Platonism → Pythagoreanism → Skepticism → Stoicism →
hasStartTime	6th century BCE →
influenced	Islamic philosophy → Roman philosophy → contemporary analytic philosophy → contemporary continental philosophy → medieval Christian philosophy → modern Western philosophy →
partOf	Western philosophy →

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