Tracing the Origin of Philosophy: The Pre-Socratics and Socrates Flashcards
Who are the three Pre-Socratic Philosophers?
Thales, Phythagoras, and Heraclitus
This philosopher claimed that everything is changing and believed that the only permanent thing in thing in this world is change.
Heraclitus
He treated philosophy as a way of life.
Phythagoras
He is considered as the father of western philosophy and is regarded as one of the seven sages of ancient Greece.
Thales
He made important contributions to the field of Mathematics, the most famous of which is the field of Phythagorean thereom.
Phythagoras
He used fire to emphasize this idea of change.
Heraclitus
He claimed that there is one single substance that comprises everything and that substance is water.
Thales
Who is the philosopher that turned his inquiry on the human person and human living?
Socrates
If knowledge is virtue, what is ignorance?
Ignorance is a vice.
Who said, “know yourself for the unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
He said that knowledge is a virtue.
Socrates
What does knowledge is a virtue mean?
It means that no one does evil intentionally. One does evil because he does not know that it is evil.
