Talk:Ancient philosophy
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[edit] Presocratics
There used to be a section for presocratic philosophers. I don't know why it was removed, but I added the presocratics, since they clearly count as both ancient and philosophers. --D. Webb 18:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hellenistic philosophers
I moved Pyrrho, Epicurus and others down to Arcessilaus to the Hellenistic section (they were in the Classcal philosophers section) since Epicurus, the Stoics, Pyrrho and the sceptical tradition are always taken to be hellenistic philosophers. --D. Webb 18:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Roman philosophy
It is not clear to me that Plutarch and Sextus Empiricus are Roman as opposed to Greek philosophers, even though they lived in the Roman Empire. At any rate, they are not Roman philosophers in the same sense ans e.g. Lucretius or Cicero. Accordingly I changed the section heading to include late antiquity, which seems suitable since in that section we find figures like Proclus and Simplicius, which clearly count as late antiquity. --D. Webb 18:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
