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Why are the hellenic philosophers before Platos time referred to as pre-socratic?
It seems plausible to me that they could equally have been called pre-Plato. Whats the significance of Socrates? Did he instill an ethical turn in Hellenic philosophy (or be seen to do so)?
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Is knowledge possible in the Heraclitean system?
Heraclitus proposed that everything was in flux always:
The Greeks before Heraclitus focused on the essence of things, its nature and being, which they deemed unchangeable. In contrast, Heraclitus ...
