Ancient Greek Socrates, Plato and Aristotle Flashcards
Who were the 3 most prominent Greek philosophers?
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Identify 3 Respective theories:
Knowledge and how we acquire it
The soul
Morality
Name the 4 types of souls:
Psych
Menos
Thymos
Noos
What is Thales of Miletus
Naturalism
look to world rather than supernatural for explanations, looked for universal element (phusis) which he thought was water.
Critical thinking
What is Heraclitus
Empiricism
senses (experience) in obtaining knowledge.
What is Parmenides
Rationalism
knowledge is obtained from reason rather than experience.
What is Democritus
Determinism
if things behave in lawful fashion, don’t have free will.
Materialism
there is only matter that behaves in a lawful fashion.
What did these 2 people believe everything could be reduced down to?
Thales
Heraclitus
Thales- Water
Heraclitus- Fire
Name the 4 types of personality:
Sanguine – extroverted, impulsive
Choleric – courageous, hopeful
Melancholy – neurotic, conscientious
Phlegmatic – introverted, calm
Socrates attempted to show people the virtues that they inherently know through…
Through dialogues
Having the knowledge of a perfect circle but never seeing one in every day life is an example of what?
Rationalism
What is Phenomena
-Plato
The realm of becoming
What is Ontos
-Plato
Forms that belong to the realm of Being
The mind is in contact with this form it is not through our senses
We don’t perceive Forms with our senses, but through our minds, what does this refer to?
Idealism
Mind is in contact with Plato’s Forms.
Name Aristotle’s 4 forms:
Material – what something is made from
Essential – what it actually is
Efficient – how it came to be
Final – the purpose for which it exists
