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Ernst Zacharias Platner ( ___MASK57___ October 1773  14 October ___MASK74___ ) was a German painter and writer born in Leipzig . He was the son of anthropologist Ernst Platner ( ___MASK81___  1818 ). The Parthe is a river in Saxony , Germany , right tributary of the White Elster . Its total length is ___MASK19___ km . The Parthe originates in northern Saxony , between Colditz and Bad Lausick . It flows northwest through Parthenstein , Naunhof , Borsdorf and Taucha before entering the city of Leipzig . The Parthe joins the White Elster in northwestern Leipzig . Pythagoras of Samos ( or simply ;  in Ionian Greek ) was an Ionian Greek philosopher , mathematician , and the putative founder of the movement called Pythagoreanism . Most of the information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived , so very little reliable information is known about him . He was born on the island of Samos , and travelled , visiting Egypt and Greece , and maybe India . Around ___MASK99___ BC , he moved to Croton , in Magna Graecia , and there established some kind of school or guild . In ___MASK83___ BC , he returned to Samos . Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany as well as one of its constituent 16 states . With a population of approximately ___MASK59___ . ___MASK18___ million people , Berlin is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union . Located in northeastern Germany on the banks of rivers Spree and Havel , it is the centre of the Berlin - Brandenburg Metropolitan Region , which has about 6 million residents from more than 180 nations . Due to its location in the European Plain , Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate . Around one - third of the city ' s area is composed of forests , parks , gardens , rivers and lakes . Leipzig is the largest city in the federal state of Saxony , Germany . With a population of ___MASK100___ , 087 inhabitants ( 1 , 001 , 220 residents in the larger urban zone ) it is Germany ' s tenth most populous city . Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin at the confluence of the White Elster , Pleisse and Parthe rivers at the southern end of the North German Plain . Ernst Platner ( ___MASK89___  ___MASK16___ December ___MASK66___ ) was a German anthropologist , physician and Rationalist philosopher , born in Leipzig . He was the father of painter Ernst Zacharias Platner ( 1773  1855 ). Ernst Platner ( German : ( platn ) ; June ___MASK76___ , 1744 -- December 27 , 1818 ) was a German anthropologist , physician and philosopher born in Leipzig . He was father to painter Ernst Zacharias Platner ( 1773 -- 1855 ) . He received his education at the University of Leipzig , where in 1770 he became an associate professor of medicine . Later at Leipzig , he was appointed a full professor of physiology ( 1780 ) and philosophy ( 1811 ) . Platner was a follower of the teachings of Leibniz . He was the author of Anthropologie für Aerzte und Weltweise , one of the more important anthropological works of the Spätaufklärung ( an epoch of German literature ) . This work was influential to scholars that included Johann Gottfried Herder , Friedrich Schiller and Karl Philipp Moritz . He believed in treating modern anthropology as a medico - philosophical science of the whole individual -- a viewpoint that can be considered as a precursor of psychosomatic medicine . Platner is credited with originally coining the term Unbewußtseyn ( unconscious ) . Philosophy ( from Greek , " philosophia ", literally " love of wisdom ") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence , knowledge , values , reason , mind , and language . The term was probably coined by Pythagoras ( c . ___MASK100___  c . 495 BC ). Philosophical methods include questioning , critical discussion , rational argument and systematic presentation . Classic philosophical questions include : Is it possible to know anything and to prove it ? What is most real ? However , philosophers might also pose more practical and concrete questions such as : Is there a best way to live ? Is it better to be just or unjust ( if one can get away with it )? Do humans have free will ? A philosopher is someone who practices philosophy , which involves rational inquiry into areas that are outside of either theology or science . The term " philosopher " comes from the Ancient Greek (" philosophos ") meaning " lover of wisdom ". The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek thinker Pythagoras ( 6th century BC ). The 6th century BC started the first day of ___MASK63___ BC and ended the last day of 501 BC .