Week 2 Flashcards
What was the Delian League?
-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)
What was the Peloponnesian League?
-military alliance founded by Sparta
-less centralized
-no tribute requirement
What is telion melos?
Music in its perfect form (music with poetry/dancing)
What is hubris?
excessive ambition and pride (behavior that challenges the gods)
Thales of Miletus: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?
Materialist
Empedocles of Acragas: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?
Materialist
Heraclitus: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?
Dualist
Plato: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?
Dualist
Parmenides: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?
Dualist
Herodotus: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?
Historian
Anaximenes: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?
Materialist
Protagoras: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?
Dualist
Aristotle: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?
Materialist
Pythagoras: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?
Materialist
What statesman was known as “The First Citizen of Athens?”
Pericles
What are materialists?
View nature in terms of elements
What are dualists?
Believe in two universes:
1. World around us
2. Perfect, ideal world accessed only through intellect
Which philosopher believed everything has its origins in water
Thales of Miletus
Which philosopher believed the world is made up of a single common material: air?
Anaximenes
Which philosopher believed you can’t step into the same river twice?
Heraclitus
Which philosopher believed man is the measure of all things (rather than the divine)?
Protagoras
Which philosopher believed in four elements: earth, air, fire, water
Empedocles of Acragas
Which philosopher believed matter is made of infinitely small parts?
Anaxagoras
Which philosopher believed you can’t trust your senses?
Parmenides
Which philosopher believed the unexamined life is not worth living?
Socrates
Which philosopher believed in Ideal Forms?
Plato
Which philosopher believed it is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it
Aristotle
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.”
Plato’s Apology (record of Socrates’ trial)
Who created the branch of philosophy known as formal logic?
Aristotle
What is formal logic?
If A=B and B=C then A=C
Why does the teacher only ask questions in the Socratic method?
to explore the limits of one’s knowledge
Characteristics of the late Classical period in Greece?
-confusion
-exploration of ideas and styles
-Athens no longer the cultural center
-expanding Greek empire
In seeking wise men, Socrates realized that people
don’t know what they don’t know
5 Branches of Ancient Greek Philosophy
- logic
- metaphysics
- epistemology
- aesthetics
- political philosophy
Name of Plato’s work in which he described ideal society?
The Republic
3 points of Aristotle’s ethics
- everything we need to learn is in the world around us
- man is a political creature
- happiness comes from approaching divine potential
