Philosopher
Archelaus (philosopher)
Overview
Archelaus (; Greek: Ἀρχέλαος; fl. 5th century BC) was a Greek philosopher, a pupil of Anaxagoras, and may have been a teacher of Socrates. He asserted that the principle of motion was the separation of hot from cold, from which he endeavoured to explain the formation of the Earth and the creation of animals and humans.
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Philosophers who discussed Archelaus (philosopher)
Ideas Archelaus (philosopher) discusses
- Animal
- Athens
- Phaedo
- Lampsacus
- Philosophy
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Anaxagoras
- Atmosphere of Earth
- Motion
- Plato
- Ionian school (philosophy)
- Socrates
- Sun
- Aristotle
- Xenophon
- Natural philosophy
- John Burnet (classicist)
- Pseudo-Plutarch
- Sophist
- Human
- Miletus
- Hippolytus of Rome
- Clement of Alexandria
- Stobaeus
Place in the tradition
Part of Anaximander.