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How much do you know about Philosophy?Epicurus (341-270 BC) is not a pre-Socratic philosopher, but a Hellenistic one, after Socrates and Aristotle. The pre-Socratics (such as Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Anaximenes) were philosophers before Socrates who focused primarily on explaining the origin and nature of the cosmos.