How can Democritus be so neglected?
The man who first hypothesized the atom.
The man who is widely considered to be the father of modern science.
C'mon!
Thomas Hobbes
Epicurus
Machiavelli
Friedrich Nietzsche
Karl Marx
All good.
Also, Thucydides. The man who first posited the idea that might makes right in his History of the Peloponnesian War. "...since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
The man who first hypothesized the atom.
The man who is widely considered to be the father of modern science.
C'mon!
Thomas Hobbes
Epicurus
Machiavelli
Friedrich Nietzsche
Karl Marx
All good.
Also, Thucydides. The man who first posited the idea that might makes right in his History of the Peloponnesian War. "...since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."