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title: Greek philosophy
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  and comparisons."
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<h2 id="greek-philosophy">Greek philosophy</h2>

Any classification is questionable because of its arbitrariness, however, it does not cease to have a certain usefulness in analyzing evolutions and comparisons.

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<h2 id="windelband-standings">Windelband Standings</h2>

**Windelband** proposed the following division for Greek philosophy:

1.  **Cosmological period**:

Corresponding to the first philosophers

1.  **Anthropological period**:

Identified with the time when philosophy concentrates on the problems of the city, specifically identified with the sophists and Socrates.

1.  **Systematic period**:

characterized by the doctrines of Democritus, Plato and Aristotle.

1.  **Ethical period**:

Corresponding to the doctrines of stoicism and epicureism