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27 Cards in this Set
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Anaximenes |
Air: condensation, rarefaction |
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Thales |
Water: matter is divine |
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Anaximander |
Indeterminite/Boundless: has no qualities |
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Heraclitus |
Fire: everything flows |
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Xenophanes |
Earth: gods are not like humans |
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Pythagoras |
Math: harmony, limits on unlimited |
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Parmenides |
"The One": No change |
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Zeno |
Proofs that change/multiplicity are impossible |
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Melissus |
"The One" is infinite, no body |
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Empedocles |
Earth,Air,Fire,Water,Love,Strife |
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Anaxagoras |
Seeds: Everything has everything, NOUS |
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Democritus |
Atoms: indivisible, uncreated, moving |
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Leucippus |
Atoms: indivisible, uncreated, moving |
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Protagoras |
Sophist: All opinions are true but some are better |
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Gorgias |
Sophist: Nothing exists, all is opinion |
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Callicles |
Sophist: Superior rules inferior |
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Socrates |
Wisdom is knowing one is not wise Ideal Truth |
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Pyrrho |
Skeptic: happiness is lack of judgement |
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Carneades |
Skeptic: Attacked Epicureanism, Stoicism, and "dogmatic" skepticism Probability |
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Aenesidemus |
Skeptic: Ten tropes, 5 modes: Circular Reasoning, Hypothesis, disagreement, relativity, infinite regress |
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Sextus Empiricus |
Skeptic: tranquility, find truth by rejecting it |
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Epicurus |
Truth comes from feelings and sensations. Atoms collide, no life after death |
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Zeno of Citium |
Stoic: Virtue=Wisdom, Order of God, cycle of rebirth
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Cicero |
Stoic: Free Will, natural law |
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Epictetus |
Stoic: Anyone can be "free" in God |
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Marcus Aurelius |
Stoic Emperor: unimportance of humans |
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Plotinus |
Neoplatanism: the Unity, union=being |
