Ancient Philosophers (These ones will make you think?) Flashcards
The Athenian state disapproved of his conduct, and he was put on trial for corrupting the city’s youth, which led to his death by drinking hemlock.
Socrates
His dialogues include the Republic (about justice and the ideal city-state), the Symposium (about the nature of love), and the Meno (about whether virtue can be taught).
Plato
He was a student of Plato; in turn, and he was a tutor to Alexander the Great.
Aristotle
A pivotal thinker from China’s Spring and Autumn period
Confucius
a quasi-mythical thinker of the Taoist tradition, to whom the pivotal Tao te Ching is attributed.
Lao Tzu
He himself was something of an eccentric—according to legend, he lived in a tub or a barrel on the street, and wandered Athens holding a lamp in his futile search for an honest man.
Diogenes
His namesake school, Epicureanism, believed that pleasure was the highest (or only) good, and that the absence of pain (aponia) was the highest pleasure.
Epicurus
a student of Parmenides, who founded the Eleatic school in a Greek colony of the Italian peninsula.
Zeno of Elea
a pre-Socratic thinker from the Greek colony of Miletus who many consider to be the “first philosopher.”
Thales
(sometimes known as “Tully”) was also a significant philosopher. He described the ideal state in such dialogues as On the Republic and On the Laws, while he discussed Epicurean and Stoic views on religion in On the Nature of the Gods.
Cicero
