Philosophy: Socratic Period Flashcards
Teachers; first skeptics
Sophists
Sophist came from what word, which means?
Sophia - wisdom
The belief that knowledge is unattainable
Skepticism
They pretend that they know all things
Sophists
The issue during the Socratic period
Man and his place in society (Ethics)
Believes that knowledge is attainable
Socrates
He challenged the Sophists with endless questions
Socrates
What did Socrates said
“What I do not know, I do not think I know.”
It means popular opinion
Doxa
He believes that good is not what people agreed, there is a basis of good or bad
Socrates
He wrote about Socrates
Plato
The work of Plato, where he wrote about Socrates is called
Dialogues
Plato believes that there are 2 worlds, explain
World of Form/Ideas (Eidos) - perfect
World of Sense - illusion
Sense is a copy of Forms/Ideas
The school that Plato founded in Athens is called
The Academy
What is the theory of Plato?
Knowledge is Remembering
-our souls are with the world of ideas, when we are born we forgot our knowledge. When we learn, we’re actually just remembering our knowledge.
He enrolled in the Academy at 20yo
Aristotle
The school that Aristotle founded
Lyceum
Aristotle tutored the future king of Macedonia who is
Alexander the Great
What is the theory of Aristotle? Explain
Hylomorphic Theory
-each things has matter (hyle) and form (morphe)
Form and matter creates?
Substance
Only form; no matter
Supreme Being
The less systematics thoughts formed after the big 3
Epicureanism
Stoicism
Cynicism
Neoplatonism
Differentiate Pre-Socratics, Socratics, and Post Aristotelian
PreSocratics - cosmological, physical
Socratic - metaphysical, ethical
Post-Aristotelian - ethical, social, and mystical
