English Dictionary

pre-Socratic

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌpɹiːsɒˈkɹætɪk/

名詞

歴史的

(historical) Any of the pre-Socratic philosophers, viz. Thales (circa 624–546 BCE), Anaximander (circa 610–546 BCE), Anaximenes (circa 585–525 BCE), Pythagoras (circa 576–495 BCE), Xenophanes (circa 570–480 BCE), Heraclitus (circa 535–475 BCE), Parmenides (early-5ᵗʰ century BCE), Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 BCE), Empedocles (circa 490–430 BCE), and Democritus (circa 460–370 BCE).

日本語の意味

（歴史的な文脈で）ソクラテス以前の古代ギリシャの哲学者、具体的にはタレス、アナクシマンダー、アナクシメネス、ピタゴラス、クセノファネス、ヘラクレイトス、パルメニデス、アナクサゴラス、エンペドクレス、デモクリトスなどを指す。

A pre-Socratic like Thales argued that water is the originating principle of all things.

ソクラテス以前のギリシャの哲学者であるタレスのような人物は、万物の根源は水であると主張した。

意味（1）

(historical) Any of the pre-Socratic philosophers, viz. Thales (circa 624–546 BCE), Anaximander (circa 610–546 BCE), Anaximenes (circa 585–525 BCE), Pythagoras (circa 576–495 BCE), Xenophanes (circa 570–480 BCE), Heraclitus (circa 535–475 BCE), Parmenides (early-5ᵗʰ century BCE), Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 BCE), Empedocles (circa 490–430 BCE), and Democritus (circa 460–370 BCE).

Hers is the philosophy that stood before the speculations of the presocratics; she is the Holy Mother Church which Descartes challenged when he cut the umbilical cord between philosophy and the Church and split reality into the res externa and the res cogitans.

pre-Socratics （ plural ）