Greek philosophy
Any classification is questionable because of its arbitrariness, however, it does not cease to have a certain usefulness in analyzing evolutions and comparisons.
Windelband Standings
Windelband proposed the following division for Greek philosophy:
- Cosmological period:
Corresponding to the first philosophers
- Anthropological period:
Identified with the time when philosophy concentrates on the problems of the city, specifically identified with the sophists and Socrates.
- Systematic period:
characterized by the doctrines of Democritus, Plato and Aristotle.
- Ethical period:
Corresponding to the doctrines of stoicism and epicureism