Pluralist school

The Pluralist school was a school of pre-Socratic philosophers who attempted to reconcile Parmenides' rejection of change with the apparently changing world of sense experience. The school consisted of Anaxagoras, Archelaus, and Empedocles. It can also be said to have included the Atomists, Leucippus and Democritus. The Pluralists rejected the idea that the diversity of nature can be reduced to a single principle (monism). Anaxagoras posited that nature contained an innumerable number of principles, while Empedocles reduced nature to four elements (fire, air, earth, and water) which could not be reduced to one another and which would be sufficient to explain change and diversity.

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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