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6 Cards in this Set
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Heraclitus
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- 504 BC
- lectures during olympics - logos > mythos; mythos = ignorance - focuses on fire + inductive, empirical logic - genetai = "becoming" (w/ regards to fire) |
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Pericles
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- 460 to 474 BC
- built parthenon - funeral oration eventually becomes gettysburg address |
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Themisticles
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- 483 BC
- Leader of Greek Navy - Strategically acted as a traitor |
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Democritus
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- 460-370 BC
- conceived the atom |
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Parmenides
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- 470 BC
- Nothing can "not exist" - Matter cannot be created or destroyed |
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Socrates
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- 469-399 BC
- fascinated by natural philosophers - everyone's knowledge is from primary reason |
