Sophists & Socratic

Question 1

Protagoras

Answer 1

Idea: Man is the Measure of All Things, Knowledge Relative

Time: 490-420 BC

Location: Athens

School: Sophists

Question 2

Gorgias

Answer 2

Idea: No Truth, Rhetoric

Time: 427 BC

Location: Athens

School: Sophists

Question 3

Thrasymachus

Answer 3

Idea: Might is Right

Time:

Location: Athens

School: Sophists

Question 4

Socrates

Answer 4

Idea: Knowledge is Virtue, Dialectic

Time: 470-399 BC

Location: Athens

School:

Question 5

Plato

Answer 5

Idea: Forms, Virtue Fulfillment of Function

Time: 428-348 BC

Location: Athens

Question 6

Aristotle

Answer 6

Idea: Formal Logic, Substance is Essence (Empiricism), Golden Mean

Time: 384-322 BC

Location: Athens and Macedonia

Question 7

Epicurus

Answer 7

Idea: Material World, Heirarchy of Pleasures

Time: 341-271 BC

Location: Athens

Question 8

Epictetus

Answer 8

Idea: God in Everything (Fate), Attitude over Circumstances (Self Control)

Time: 60-117 AD

Location: Rome

School: Stoicism

Question 9

Pyrrho

Answer 9

Idea: Continuous Inquiry (Non-Dogmatic)

Time: 361-270 BC

Location:

School: Skepticism