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believed that their minds were capable of understanding everything |
philosophers |
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"the seeking of wisdom" |
philosophy |
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provided education in 400 BC |
sophists |
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"knowers" |
sophists |
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sophists taught courses in ___ and ___. |
excellence and virtue |
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Sophists gathered where? |
Athens |
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What did sophists reject? |
gods and goddesses |
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"man is the measure of all things" |
what the sophists thought |
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Who criticizied sophists |
Socrates and Plato |
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lived after the Peloponnesian War |
Socrates |
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referred to as a "gadfly" and irratating pest |
Socrates |
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encouraged "thinking for yourself", "clarifying their thinking", and "defending your thinking" |
Socrates |
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basic method of questioning |
Socratic Method |
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in 339 accused of "corrupting the youth" and "not worshipping gods worshipped by the state" |
Socrates |
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denied a lesser sentence and drank poisonous hemlock |
Socrates |
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related to Pericles, born aristocrat |
Plato |
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at the age of 40, turned to teaching |
Plato |
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the "Academy" |
school of plato |
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dialogues between Socrates and great Athenians |
The Dialogues |
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included 35 dialogues and 12 letters |
The Dialogues |
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authored the earliest book on political science |
Plato |
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Earliest book on Political science |
The Republic |
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5 things Plato wrote in the "Republic" |
1-preferred the oligarchy 2-believed the stated was more important than induvidual 3-promoted service to community over personal goals 4- too much freedom leads to social disorder 5- distrusted lower class in the government |
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rejected the senses |
Plato |
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wrote on subjects including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, politics, ethics, and biology |
Aristotle |
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how many years did 18 year old Aristotle stay at Plato's Academy? |
20 years |
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invited by _____ to become the royal tutor of Alexander the great and leader of the royal academy |
Philip II; Aristotle |
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opened Lyceum |
Aristotle |
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taught the golden mean |
Aristotle |
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greatest contibution was in logic |
Aristotle |
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science of reasoning |
logic |
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used the senses in physics |
Aristotle |
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believed in monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy in one system |
Aristotle |
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preferred the middle class in the government |
Aristotle |
