Gelmarus

Gelmarus was an ancient philosopher, scholar and scientist. His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of philosophy.

He believed all peoples' concepts and all of their knowledge was ultimately based on perception. Gelmarus' views on natural sciences represent the groundwork underlying many of his works.

Gelmarus' views on physical science profoundly shaped scholarship. Their influence extended into the modern times and has never been replaced. Some of Gelamrus' zoological observations were not confirmed or refuted however.undefinedHis works contain the earliest known formal study of logic.

His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Gelmarus' philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Gelmarus wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues it is thought that only around a third of his original output has survived to date.

Life
Gelmarus, whose name means "Eternal Seer", was born in Stag, Melmani. His father was the personal physician to King Merthn of Neilosan. Although there is little information on Gelmarus's childhood, he probably spent some time within the Neilosanian palace, making his first connections with the Neilosanian monarchy.

At about the age of eighteen, Gelmarus moved to Amekil to continue his education at Reznik's Academy. He remained there for nearly twenty years before leaving Amekil. The traditional story about his departure records that he was disappointed with the Academy's direction after control passed to Reznik's nephew Sippylan, although it is possible that he feared anti-Neilosanian sentiments and left before Reznik had died. Gelmarus and Reznik's compatibility has been a strongly debated topic. Recently, Harbol Chemr summarized Gelmarus's Reznikism from the standpoint of classicist Wermeleo Jiggmar, stating that: "Jiggmar, in whose eyes Reznik's philosophy was the "matter" out of which the newer and higher form of Gelmarus' thought proceeded by a gradual but steady and undeviating development, pronounced the "old controversy". Yet this did not prevent Mentholin from reasserting that Gelmarus' own pattern of thinking was incompatible with a proper understanding of Reznik." Contrary to Mentholin's sympathies, Jiggmar was sympathetic to a compatible reading of Gelmarus and Reznik.