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What was the primary focus of Socrates’ philosophy?

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Ethics

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What were Socrates’ dates?

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c.470-399 BCE

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Where was Socrates from?

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Athens

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On what charges was Socrates condemned to death?

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Impiety and corrupting the youth

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Other than Plato, which of Socrates’ pupils wrote dialogues which contribute to our picture of him?

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Xenophon

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What were the title and author of the famous satirical play about Socrates?

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‘The Clouds’ by Aristophanes

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Which handsome statesman claimed to be in love with Socrates?

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Alcibiades

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Who was the wife of Socrates?

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Xantippe

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Who was told by the oracle at Delphi that Socrates was the wisest man living?

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Chaerephon

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Why did Socrates think the oracle at Delphi called him the wisest man living?

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Because he knew that he knew nothing

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Which famous playwright was a friend of Socrates?

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Euripides

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What is the ‘Socratic method’ or ‘elenchus’?

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Ask an interlocutor for the definition for a concept then demonstrate that this definition is inconsistent with the interlocutor’s other beliefs

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What is ‘arete’?

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Virtue or excellence

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What was virtue a kind of, according to Socrates?

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Knowledge

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Socrates believed in the ‘unity of the virtues’. What is this?

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If a person has one of the virtues, he has all of them

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All the early dialogues end in aporia. What is this?

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Inconclusiveness, no definition being found

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17
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What four virtues did Socrates consider to be most important?

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1) Courage
2) Justice
3) Temperance
4) Wisdom

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What were Plato’s dates?

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c.425-347 BCE

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Where was Plato from?

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Athens

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What is thought to have been Plato’s real name?

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Aristocles

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In what year was Athens defeated by Sparta?

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404 BCE

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According to Plato, what is the inevitable result of political turmoil?

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A tyrant stepping in to restore order

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Which Greek city did Plato advise and influence with his political ideas?

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Syracuse (Sicily)

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Which important dialogue marks Plato’s move away from concluding in aporia?

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The Meno

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What were the two realms, according to Plato?

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The Realm of Being and the Realm of Becoming

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What are three characteristics of Plato’s Forms?

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1) Eternal
2) Perfect
3) Unchanging

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What does anamnesis mean?

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Unforgetting

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What is Plato’s ‘theory of recollection’?

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Knowledge is obtained by remembering things from ones soul’s disembodied state in the Realm of Being

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What does the sun represent in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave?

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The form of the Good

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What distinguishes knowledge from true belief according to Plato?

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Satisfactory justification

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31
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What virtue, in individuals and states, is the subject of Plato’s Republic?

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Justice

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What are the three groups in Plato’s ideal society?

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1) Guardians
2) Warriors
3) The rest

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In the Republic, what is justice according to Thrasymachus?

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Whatever the strong wish to do

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According to Plato, what are the three parts of the soul?

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1) Reason
2) Spirit
3) Appetite

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What is the degenerative sequence of forms of government according to Plato?

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1) Aristocracy (meritocratic)
2) Epistocracy
3) Timocracy
4) Oligarchy (plutocratic)
5) Democracy
6) Anarchy
7) Tyranny

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36
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What is ‘epistocracy’?

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Rule by those who know (experts)

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What is ‘timocracy’? (In Plato’s sense)

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Rule by those who seek honor, status, and military glory

38
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What is ‘oligarchy’? (In Plato’s sense)

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Rule by the rich (plutocracy)

39
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What is justice in states and souls according to Plato?

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Balance (harmony) between the three parts

40
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What are realism and nominalism?

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Realists think universals exist and nominalists don’t

41
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In what dialogue does Plato challenge his own idea of the Forms?

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The Parmenides

42
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According to Plato, do things like mud, hair, and dirt have Forms?

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No

43
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According to Plato, do things like equality and plurality have forms?

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Yes

44
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What is the ‘Third Man’ problem?

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1) A man is a man because he resembles the Form of Man
2) But there must be a second Form of Man to explain this first resemblance
3) And a third Form to explain this second resemblance, etc.

45
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In what dialogue does Plato challenge his theory of knowledge as justified true belief?

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The Theaetetus

46
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When was the Academy closed by the Roman emperor Justinian?

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529 CE

47
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What were Aristotle’s dates?

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c.384-322 BCE

48
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Where was Aristotle born?

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Stagira (Macedonia)

49
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At what age did Aristotle begin studying under Plato?

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Eighteen

50
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To which famous leader was Aristotle a tutor?

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Alexander the Great

51
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Where was Aristotle’s school located?

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The Lyceum (Athens)

52
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What was Aristotle’s school called?

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The Peripatetic school

53
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Why did Alexander call for Aristotle’s arrest?

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He though Aristotle was part of a conspiracy to assassinate him

54
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What charge was brought against Aristotle?

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Impiety

55
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What was the overarching division in Aristotle’s system of knowledge?

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Theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy

56
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What are the three components of theoretical philosophy? (Aristotle)

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1) Metaphysics (First philosophy)
2) Mathematics
3) Physics (nature)

57
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What is the focus of practical philosophy? (Aristotle)

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Politics (which includes ethics)

58
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What did Aristotle call the science of logic?

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Analytics

59
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What is the ‘Organon’? What does the word mean?

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Aristotle’s writings on logic. It means ‘instrument’.

60
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What did Aristotle consider to be the fundamental unit of logical interest?

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The proposition

61
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What are the two chief components of a proposition? (Aristotle)

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The subject and the predicate

62
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What is the subject of a proposition?

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That about which something true or false is asserted

63
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What is the predicate of a proposition?

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What is asserted about the subject

64
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What are the four main categories? (Aristotle)

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1) Substance
2) Quality
3) Quantity
4) Relation

65
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What type of proposition is ‘all As are B’?

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Universal affirmative

66
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What type of proposition is ‘no As are B’?

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Universal negative

67
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What type of proposition is ‘some As are B’?

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Particular affirmative

68
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What type of proposition is ‘some As are not B’?

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Particular negative

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What are Aristotles ‘five words’? (Ways in which a predicate can relate to a subject)

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1) Genus
2) Species (Definition)
3) Difference
4) Property
5) Accident

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What are Aristotle’s ‘four causes’?

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1) Material
2) Efficient
3) Formal
4) Final

71
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What is the self-caused ‘first mover’ (God) according to Aristotle?

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Pure thought thinking about itself

72
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What kind of souls do all animate things have according to Aristotle?

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Nutritive souls

73
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What additional aspect do the souls of all animals have according to Aristotle?

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A sensitive aspect

74
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What additional aspect do the the souls of human beings have according to Aristotle?

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A rational aspect

75
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What is the efficient, formal, and final cause for a living thing?

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The soul

76
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What is the highest art according to Aristotle?

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Politics

77
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What were Aristotles two ethical treatises?

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1) The Eudemian Ethics

2) Nicomachean Ethics

78
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What makes eudaemonia the highest end for Aristotle?

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It is desired for its own sake and not as a means to a further end

79
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According to Aristotle, what was the worst fault of Plato’s theory of Forms?

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Its inability to explain change in the realm of Becoming

80
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Which philosopher thought there was nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses?

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Aristotle

81
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What is sensation for Aristotle?

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The body carrying the world’s forms to the soul

82
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What are the fundamental things upon which ‘accidents’ like color supervene? (Aristotle)

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Substances

83
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What is eudaemonia for humans? (Aristotle)

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Rational activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

84
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What are the two kinds of virtue? (Aristotle)

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1) Those of mind

2) Those of character

85
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How does Aristotle define virtue?

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The middle path between opposing vices

86
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How does Aristotle define human beings?

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Political animals

87
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For Aristotle, what was the ideal size for a state?

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Small, where the voice of the town crier can be heard from one end to the other.

88
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What shape is the universe according to Aristotle?

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A sphere

89
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What is another word for aether?

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Quintessence (fifth essence)

90
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What is the natural motion of the aether? (Aristotle)

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Circular

91
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What label did Thomas Aquinas bestow upon Aristotle?

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The Philosopher

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