Greek Philosophy

Question 0

Ethics

Answer 0

Moral values of character.
What’s worth fighting for?
Dying for ?

Question 1

epistimology

Answer 1

a theory of knowledge;

how do we know what we know

Question 2

Aesthetics

Answer 2

the study of beauty
what is beautiful
what ugly

Question 3

Political Philosophy

Answer 3

the study of what type of government is most effective

Question 4

Pre socratics -parmenedes

Answer 4

everything stays the same nothing changes, the only things that changes is our perception
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Question 5

Heraclitus

Answer 5

everything changes all the time.

“you can’t step in the same river twice”

Question 6

How did plato form his philosophy

Answer 6

combining the philosophies of Heraclitus and permenedes

Question 7

Sophists

Answer 7

teachers; self reported wise men
well traveled athenians
They were relativists

Question 8

socrates

Answer 8

Famously ugly Athenian

Had a rivalry with the Sophists

Question 9

Why did socrates have a rivalry with the sophists

Answer 9

• socrates is called wise because he says he doesn’t know everything
• the sophists are not wise because they claim to know everything

Question 10

what is the sophists philosophy?

Answer 10

relativism

Question 11

what does socrates believes that you can only know the truths if…

Answer 11

you can only know the truths if you use your reason, to deem what’s right and wrong

Question 12

what is the socratic method?

Answer 12

asking questions so people come to their own realization.

Question 13

dialectic

Answer 13

exchange of ideas in order to arrive at a truth, an agreed upon truth

Question 14

what is dualistic metaphysics ?

Answer 14

Spiritual Metaphysics (ideal reality)
Material metaphysics (physical reality)

Question 15

Which reality is more true?

Answer 15

spiritual reality

Question 16

what is sophocles epistemology?

Answer 16

using your reason, is how you know things.

Question 17

What is the ladder of truth

Answer 17

reason
understanding
perception
imagination

Question 18

What is plato’s ethics?

Answer 18

be a philosopher…ask questions until you’re blue in the face. You’re not being you , you’re doing what society wants you to do.

Question 19

What is plato’s political philosophy?

Answer 19

philosopher kings should rule
Military; police should come next
at the bottom are people

Question 20

plato’s soul

Answer 20

reason
spirit
appetites

Question 21

Aristotle’s metaphysics

Answer 21

he does not separate the material and the ideal.
IS NOT DUALISTIC
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Question 22

Aristotle’s epistemology

Answer 22

perception first

reason comes second

Question 23

Aristotle’s ethics

Answer 23

two parts to the human, 
rational and irrational 
rational - can reason and use logic
non-rational- your appetites 
Rational keeps non rational under control