The Greek Philosophers, Socrates onwards review Flashcards
He thought there were two kinds of worlds: one filled with mistakes, the other with perfect ideals.
Plato
He did not think democracy was a good idea for the most part.
Socrates
He is called the “Father of Western Philosophy”.
Socrates
He was, “the first who brought philosophy down from the heavens, placed it in cities, introduced it into families, and obliged it to examine into life and morals, and good and evil”
Socrates
The Oracle of Delphi said he was the wisest man in Athens.
Socrates
He is credited with saying, “the unexamined life is not worth living”.
Socrates
He was sentenced to death by the Athenian authorities.
Socrates
He left no writings.
Socrates
He thought Athens should be ruled by “Philosopher Kings”, people knowledgeable about what constitutes good leadership.
Socrates
He was a teacher, sculptor, soldier, academic and philosopher.
Socrates
Another philosopher said of him, “the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to ——”.
Plato
He founded the school, the Academy.
Plato
He mistakenly believed that women’s wombs were an animal and moved freely in the body.
Plato
He did not trust the sentences; everything must be known through reason.
Plato
He was a student of Socrates.
Plato
A distinguishing part of his thinking was linked to forms, unchanging, eternal, perfect ideas.
Plato
He made an analogy about our inabilities to understand reality with his “Analogy of the Cave.”
Plato
His followers were called peripatetics because they discussed and learned while they walked.
Aristotle
He taught Alexander the Great.
Aristotle
He named 495 species of animal.
Aristotle
He is regarded as an empiricist.
Aristotle
He founded the school, the Lyceum.
Aristotle
He observed and knew his world first through his senses and then later used reason.
Aristotle
He contributed to the development of logic, psychology, mathematics, rhetoric, politics, biology, physics and ethics.
Aristotle
