Concept
Europe
Overview
terrestrial continent located in north-western Eurasia
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Opposite to the west coast of Europe is the island called Britannia, so celebrated in the records of Greece[25] and of our own country. It is situate to the north-west, and, with a large tract of intervening sea, lies opposite to Germany, Gaul, and Spain, by far the greater part of Europe. Its former name was Albion.[26] This island is distant from the coast of the nation of the Morini,[27] at the spot where the…
the Elder Pliny, The Boys' and Girls' Pliny
States what Europe is; names Europe twice.
But in fact the mammifers of Europe are at present nearly as much Africo-Asiatic as they were formerly when Europe had its elephants and rhinoceroses, etc.; Europe neither now nor then possessed peculiar groups as does Australia and S. America. The extinction of certain peculiar forms in one quarter does not make the remaining mammifers of that quarter less related to its own great division of the world: though…
Charles Darwin, The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844
Names Europe several times; states what Europe is.
Of the four quadrants of the earth, thus agreeing in number with the four triplicities, one is situated in the north-west of the entire earth, and contains Celto-galatia; or, as it is commonly called, Europe. Opposed to this quadrant lies that of the south-east, towards Eastern Æthiopia; it is called the southern part of Asia Magna. Another quadrant of the entire earth is in the north-east, about Scythia, and is…
Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
States what Europe is; names Europe twice.
Philosophers who discussed Europe
- Anaximander
- Jane Addams
- Gemistos Plethon
- Sextus Empiricus
- Boethius
- Peter of Spain
- Ernest Gellner
- Renaissance
- Jews
- Friedrich Albert Lange
- Umberto Eco
- Karl Jaspers
- Marsilius of Padua
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Carl Schmitt
- Edith Stein
- Strabo
- Islam
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Seneca the Younger
- Solomon ibn Gabirol
- John Passmore
- Wang Chong
- Leon Chwistek
Related ideas
- Revolutions of 1848
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Estonian language
- Fall of Constantinople
- Migration Period
- French language
- Armenia
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Fascism
- Turkey
- French Revolution
- BBC News
- Florence
- Anaximander
- Free market
- Germany
- German language
- Greek language
- Classical Greece
- Greece
- Greenland
- Anglicanism
- Athens
- Galen
Opposing perspectives
- Near East
- Heliocentrism
- Western Europe
- Scientific community
- Representative democracy
- Alcuin
- Islamic world
- Western culture
- Western Roman Empire
- Christendom
Place in the tradition
Part of Agriculturalism.