Ephesian school

Ephesian school sometimes refers to the philosophical thought of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, who considered that the being of all the universe is fire. According to him, the being is material and one, but at the same time he acknowledges that the world witnesses constant change. Motion of the archelement (fire) is discordant and unharmonious, even though harmony is the final result of the process.

Although there was never an official "Ephesian School," Diogenes Laërtius (ix. 6) mentions that his philosophy did have followers who called themselves "Heracliteans." Plato portrays Cratylus in his dialogue of the same name as a disciple of Heraclitus.

Ancient Greek schools of philosophy

Pre-Socratic

Schools	Atomism Eleatics Ionian Ephesian Milesian Pluralism Pythagoreanism Sophism

Philosophers	Anaxagoras Anaximander Anaximenes Democritus Empedocles Heraclitus Leucippus Melissus Parmenides Protagoras Pythagoras Thales Zeno of Elea

Socratic

Schools	Cynicism Cyrenaics Eretrian school Megarian school Peripateticism Platonism

Philosophers	Antisthenes Aristippus Aristotle Diogenes of Sinope Euclid of Megara Phaedo of Elis Plato Socrates

Hellenistic

Schools	Epicureanism Neoplatonism Neopythagoreanism Pyrrhonism Stoicism

Philosophers	Apollonius of Tyana Epictetus Epicurus Lucretius Plotinus Pyrrho Sextus Empiricus Zeno of Citium

Pre-Socratic philosophers by school

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