Greek World Thinking And Philosophy Flashcards
Movement in Greek beliefs & traditions
Move from mythology to philosophy
Who led a countermove grounded upon the notion that truth is real and discoverable?
Socrates, Plato & Aristotle
What did Socrates, Plato & Aristotle believe?
That truth is real and discoverable
What did epicureans believe?
That the finest pleasures are intellectual
What did stoics believe?
That the universe is controlled by “something”
Who is Cleisthenes
The founder of Athenian democracy
Who is Pericles
Statesman that dominated Athens during its “Golden age”
Who is protagoras
Famous sophist that believed “man is the measure of all things”
Who
-taught by asking probing and penetrating questions
-counseled “know yourself”&” the unexamined life is not worth living “
-was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock poison
?
Socrates
Who
-founded the Academy in Athens to train the ruling class
-wrote “ theory of forms”
?
Plato
Who
-was the pupil of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great
-associated with elements of both deductive and inductive reasoning
-laid down rules for syllogisms (a deductive scheme)
Aristotle
Aristotle was pupil to…& tutor to…
Plato. Alexander the Great
