Week 2 Flashcards

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1
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What was the Delian League?

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-military alliance formed between Athens and other Greek city-states
-purpose: to defend from Persia
-Athens was in charge (all members pay tribute to Athens)

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What was the Peloponnesian League?

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-military alliance founded by Sparta
-less centralized
-no tribute requirement

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3
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What is telion melos?

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Music in its perfect form (music with poetry/dancing)

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4
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What is hubris?

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excessive ambition and pride (behavior that challenges the gods)

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5
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Thales of Miletus: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

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Materialist

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Empedocles of Acragas: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

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Materialist

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Heraclitus: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

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Dualist

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Plato: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

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Dualist

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Parmenides: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

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Dualist

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Herodotus: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

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Historian

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Anaximenes: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

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Materialist

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Protagoras: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

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Dualist

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Aristotle: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

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Materialist

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Pythagoras: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

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Materialist

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15
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What statesman was known as “The First Citizen of Athens?”

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Pericles

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16
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What are materialists?

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View nature in terms of elements

17
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What are dualists?

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Believe in two universes:
1. World around us
2. Perfect, ideal world accessed only through intellect

18
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Which philosopher believed everything has its origins in water

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Thales of Miletus

19
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Which philosopher believed the world is made up of a single common material: air?

A

Anaximenes

20
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Which philosopher believed you can’t step into the same river twice?

A

Heraclitus

21
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Which philosopher believed man is the measure of all things (rather than the divine)?

A

Protagoras

22
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Which philosopher believed in four elements: earth, air, fire, water

A

Empedocles of Acragas

23
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Which philosopher believed matter is made of infinitely small parts?

A

Anaxagoras

24
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Which philosopher believed you can’t trust your senses?

A

Parmenides

25
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Which philosopher believed the unexamined life is not worth living?

A

Socrates

26
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Which philosopher believed in Ideal Forms?

A

Plato

27
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Which philosopher believed it is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

A

Aristotle

28
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What is this passage from: “For I go about doing nothing but persuading you all, young and old, not to care for your bodies for money more than for the excellence of your souls, saying that virus does not come from money, but that it is from virtue that money comes and every other good of man, both private and public.”

A

Plato’s Apology (record of Socrates’ trial)

29
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Who created the branch of philosophy known as formal logic?

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Aristotle

30
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What is formal logic?

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If A=B and B=C then A=C

31
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Why does the teacher only ask questions in the Socratic method?

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to explore the limits of one’s knowledge

32
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Characteristics of the late Classical period in Greece?

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-confusion
-exploration of ideas and styles
-Athens no longer the cultural center
-expanding Greek empire

33
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In seeking wise men, Socrates realized that people

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don’t know what they don’t know

34
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5 Branches of Ancient Greek Philosophy

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  1. logic
  2. metaphysics
  3. epistemology
  4. aesthetics
  5. political philosophy
35
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Name of Plato’s work in which he described ideal society?

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The Republic

36
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3 points of Aristotle’s ethics

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  1. everything we need to learn is in the world around us
  2. man is a political creature
  3. happiness comes from approaching divine potential