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26 Cards in this Set
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Thales
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Everything is derived from water. Founder of physical science and geometry
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Anaximander
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Believed the Earth to be cylindrical and poised in space. Life began in water and humans originated from fish.
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Parmenides
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On Nature
the apparent motion and changing forms of the universe are in fact manifestations of an unchanging and indivisible reality |
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Heraclitus
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Fire is the origin of all things. Everything is in a process of constant Change
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Thucydides
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The Peloponnesian Wars
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Heroditus
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The Histories
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Empedocles
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The Universe is composed of fire, air, water, and earth, which mingle and separate under the influence of the opposing principles of Love and Strife
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Socrates
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Never wrote a thing. Taught by dialogue with others.
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Democritus
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Atomic Theory.
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Plato
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Disciple of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. Academy in Athens.
The Republic |
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Thales
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Everything is derived from water. Founder of physical science and geometry
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Anaximander
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Believed the Earth to be cylindrical and poised in space. Life began in water and humans originated from fish.
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Parmenides
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On Nature
the apparent motion and changing forms of the universe are in fact manifestations of an unchanging and indivisible reality |
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Heraclitus
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Fire is the origin of all things. Everything is in a process of constant Change
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Thucydides
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The Peloponnesian Wars
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Heroditus
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The Histories
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Empedocles
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The Universe is composed of fire, air, water, and earth, which mingle and separate under the influence of the opposing principles of Love and Strife
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Socrates
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Never wrote a thing. Taught by dialogue with others.
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Democritus
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Atomic Theory.
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Plato
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Disciple of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. Academy in Athens.
The Republic |
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Aristotle
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Classicism.
Tutor to Alexander the Great. Logic, ethics, metaphysics, politics, natural science and physics |
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Epicurus
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Epicureanism (rejects determinism and advocates hedonism. Mental pleasure is regarded higher than physical)
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Zeno
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Stoicism
Virtue is the highest good, based on knowledge, and that the wise live in harmony with the divine Reason that governs nature. |
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Archimedes
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Displacement of water. Ratio of the radius of a circle to its circumference and formulas for the surface area and volume of a sphere and a cylinder
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Seutonius
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Twelve Caesars
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Antisthenes
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Cynicism. Ostentatious contempt for ease and pleasure
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