Born c. 965 in Basra, which was then part of the Buyid emirate, to an Arab family, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 74. During the Islamic Golden Age, Basra was a "key beginning of ...
Born c. 965 in Basra, which was then part of the Buyid emirate, to an Arab family, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 74. During the Islamic Golden Age, Basra was a "key beginning of ...
Greek Christian scribes played a crucial role in the preservation of Aristotle by copying all the extant Greek language manuscripts of the corpus. The first Greek Christians to comment extensively on ...
Aristotle, whose name means "the best purpose", was born in 384 BCE in Stagira, Chalcidice, about 55 km (34 miles) east of modern-day Thessaloniki. His father Nicomachus was the personal physician to ...
Kh?ra (Khora or Chora; Ancient Greek: χ?ρα) is a philosophical term described by Plato in Timaeus as a receptacle, a space, or an interval. It is neither being nor nonbeing but an interval betwee ...
An accurate picture of the historical Socrates and his philosophical viewpoints is problematic: an issue known as the Socratic problem.As Socrates did not write philosophical texts, the knowledge of t ...
Some 250 known manuscripts of Plato survive. The texts of Plato as received today apparently represent the complete written philosophical work of Plato and are generally good by the standards of textu ...
Little can be known about Plato's early life and education due to the very limited accounts. The philosopher came from one of the wealthiest and most politically active families in Athens. Ancient sou ...
The use of the term conceptual framework crosses both scale (large and small theories) and contexts (social science, marketing, applied science, art etc.). Its explicit definition and application ca ...
In the modern era, those attaining advanced degrees in philosophy often choose to stay in careers within the educational system. According to a 1993 study by the National Research Council (as reported ...
The Universe has at least three spatial and one temporal (time) dimension. It was long thought that the spatial and temporal dimensions were different in nature and independent of one another. However ...
Throughout recorded history, several cosmologies and cosmogonies have been proposed to account for observations of the Universe. The earliest quantitative geocentric models were developed by the ancie ...
Incas regarded space and time as a single concept, referred to as pacha (Quechua: pacha, Aymara: pacha). The peoples of the Andes maintain a similar understanding.Arthur Schopenhauer wrote in §18 of ...
In physics, for example, the space-time continuum model describes space and time as part of the same continuum rather than as separate entities. A spectrum in physics, such as the electromagnetic spec ...
Until Einstein's profound reinterpretation of the physical concepts associated with time and space, time was considered to be the same everywhere in the universe, with all observers measuring the same ...
