pre-Socratic
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of pre-Socratic
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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As a youth, Glenn attended St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md., where he studied pre-Socratic philosophy.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2016
Can one lone pre-Socratic in a canoe teach you everything you failed to learn about philosophy in college?
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2015
His students seem to lack a moral vision from the day they get to campus, and besides, professors have been espousing moral relativism since the pre-Socratic age.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2015
Anaximander, as every map-lover surely knows, is the pre-Socratic philosopher who is thought by some scholars to have devised the first map of the world.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2013
It is only when we come to Democritus, a contemporary of Socrates, the last of the original thinkers whom we distinguish as pre-Socratic, that we find anything which we can call an ethical system.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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