How did Greek philosophers influence later philosophers?

>>8339719
In the same way that we are influenced by the stuff we read.

>>8339719
Some directly, others in a more subtle way.

>>8339744
Like?

I do wonder. What about philosophers lost from the fabric of time? I can imagine them influencing stuff without us knowing so.

It is like the monkey and ladder stuff.

Neoplatonism was pretty big in the early church.

>>8339784
Like a greek philosopher may have influenced something which later influenced a more contemporary philosopher. Influence through proxy.

They asked all the fundamental questions first and defined on what terms they could be known, or if they could be known at all. The approach of Plato is very different than that of Aristotle. They posited new and opposing cosmogenies, metaphysics, and ethics derived from them. Everyone after the Greeks deals with the same questions and to some degree uses, rejects, or alters the ideas they developed, so that really all philosophy after them is a reaction to them.

>>8340104
>so that really all philosophy after them is a reaction to them.
You mean a footnote to them, don't you? :^)

>>8339784
Aristoteles was the first positivist

Plato was the first rationalist

>>8339719
this one of the most loaded questions I've ever read, can you be more specific