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http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/4617/stoic.html A study of stoic philosophy which comes from the disciples of a Greek philosopher named Zeno and its comparison to Taoist philosophy of China. Both teach people to get in touch with ones inner nature. The Romans called this reason, the Chinese called it Tao (the way), and the Greeks called it Logos. This site includes the Major Tenets of Stoicism.
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/socr.htm A study of Socrates and his use of critical reasoning. He had an unwavering commitment to truth, and through the vivid example of his own life, fifth-century Athenian Socrates set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy. Writers like Aristophanes and Xenophon detailed the information about his life and work. Stories about him as a pupil of Archelaus and how he later abandoned inquiries into the physical world for a dedicated investigation of the development of moral character.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm Historic information about Aristotle and his life who was born at Stagirus, a Greek colony. Information about his father Nichomachus who was court physician to King Amyntas of Macedonia, and his long association with the Macedonian Court and the Academy he joined where he studied under Plato and analyzed the subject of rhetoric.
http://www.2020site.org/socrates/ Profile of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates who appears in the Dialogues of Plato. Since Socrates left no writings behind because his principles precluded him from dogmatic exposition. Information about the records of his life through the works of Xenophon.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/g/greekphi.htm Encyclopedic information on Presocratics, Socrates and his Followers, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Skepticism and Neoplatonism.
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Greek-Philosophy-Philosop Discusses ancient Greek philosophy as a fundamental turning point in the evolution of humanity and our ideas about our existence in the universe. Over the past 2,500 years their knowledge directly contributed to the evolution of our current science reason based society. As Bertrand Russell observed it was the Ancient Greek Philosophers who first discovered and discussed the fundamental Principles of Philosophy, and most significantly, little has been added to their knowledge since.
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/greeks.html Western intellectual history always begins with the ancient Greeks. This is not to say that no one had any deep thoughts prior to the ancient Greeks. But it was the Greeks that educated the Romans and, after a long dark age, it was the records of these same Greeks, kept and studied by the Muslim and Jewish scholars as well as Christian monks, that educated Europe once again. Why not the Phoenicians, or the Carthaginians, or the Persians, or the Etruscans?
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