I'm writing my Dissert., and the local review office is closed (bloody hell in a hand bag). I had a website that had a TON of information on ancient philosophers. What I'm mainly trying to get is the first three schools founded by the ancient Greek philosophers and everything they taught. The website that I used to visit fervently is down or has been shut down. HELP! Where should I go? I tried Wikipedia, but I need a lot more than what they give. Any help would be received with a back breaking hug and a peck on the cheek!

HELP!

I don't know what the first three schools were, so I don't know if that information is here or not, but these three seem to have quite a bit of info: (They were actually external links from the wikipedia page, I don't know if you tried those or not)

http://plato.stanford.edu/
http://www.iep.utm.edu/
http://www.wadsworth.com/philosophy_d/spec.../timeline.html#

Not offering pics or anything in exchange? So not worth my time!

Oh yeah, that'll cost 3 credits.

You aren't asking a question with one answer. On one hand, you could either lump the elementalist Ionian philosophers into one group and say that the Pythagoreans and the Eleatics are the second and third, respectively. You could also just take the first three Ionians, since they sure didn't agree on anything aside from the idea that all of existence must be made from one element, and have your answer there.

Also, "everything that they taught" is a pretty short list, because there are no complete surviving works from any of them, no matter how you define the first three schools. We do know more than is mentioned on Wikipedia, but not substantially more, not like we do with the philosophers that came after Socrates. I could probably help better with specific questions.

You can always try going to that site using Archive.org

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Enter the URL and see if you can access the old articles.

I actually broke down and went to the library. Thanks for the links, though. I found a few things there that I didn't know existed. :hugs:

I'm so sorry for passing by this post! It must've been when I was panicking.

Unfortunately, if a Dissert. could be this short, we would have anyone and everyone going for their Ph.d. Sadly, I still have a good 81% left to go on mine. Which is partially why I quit playing. I hope all is well, though! I'm watching you, Glomdoring...

Guess you don't need it anymore, but you could always try books.google.com and www.gutenberg.org (25k+ free books) and search those places for anything relevant to your topics.
Also, just to be mean like everyone else (and because I like philosophy and this joke?)

- So what are you studying?
- Philosophy!
- So have you been measured for your uniform yet?
- What uniform?!
- Why, McDonalds of course...