People to remember (Lecture 1: Prehistory and the classical antiquity) Flashcards
1
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Tyler
A
“Prehistoric people look at the world with the knowledge of a toddler.”
2
Q
Lindberg
A
Did research on preliterate civilizations
Went against Tyler’s theory:
Mythes show that people had norms and moral values and tried to explain the world with those (human need to explain certain events). (But, myths often contradicted each other).
3
Q
Heraclitus
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Believed in and came up with: Panta Rhei
4
Q
Hippocrates
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Father of medicine, one of the first doctors
5
Q
Herophilos, Eristratos
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Continued Aristotle’s research in anatomy, biology
6
Q
Archimedes
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Did research in physics and geometry
7
Q
Ptolemaeus
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Astronomer
8
Q
Euclid
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Researcher in geometry
9
Q
Zeno
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Father of Stoicism
10
Q
Epicurus
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Father of Epicurism
11
Q
Pyrrho
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Father of Scepticism
12
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Plato
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Father of Rationalism
13
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Aristotle
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Father of Empericism
