Western philosophy facts for kids
Western philosophy is the school of thinking of Western civilization. Generally, it is seen to start with the philosophy of Ancient Greece. Its early devleopment mainly occurred in Europe and the countries around the Mediterranean.
It is different from Eastern philosophy, which developed in Asian countries such as China, Persia, Japan, India and Korea.
Philosophical thought developed in Babylon, and that relating to Islam are sometimes counted as "Eastern", and sometimes as "Western".
Images for kids
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Aristotle in The School of Athens, by Raphael
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Map of Alexander the Great's empire and the route he and Pyrrho of Elis took to India
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Erasmus is Credited as the Prince of the Humanists
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Bronze statue of Giordano Bruno by Ettore Ferrari, Campo de' Fiori, Rome
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Portrait of René Descartes, after Frans Hals, second half of 17th century
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Portrait of David Hume, by Allan Ramsay, 1754
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, steel engraving, after 1828
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Patricia Churchland, 2005
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Edmund Husserl, in the 1910s
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William James in 1906
See also
In Spanish: Filosofía occidental para niños