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9 Cards in this Set
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Socrates
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469 - 399 BC; Socratic method: seek truth through persistent questioning; Tried and convicted for corrupting youth
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Plato
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427 - 347 BC; Wrote Dialogues (ethics, religion, beauty, logic); Wrote The Republic, describing ideal government (not democracy, aristocracy of intelligence trained to rule). Most famous student was Aristotle.
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Aristotle
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384 - 322 BC; Wrote prolifically; Important books: Logic and Politics
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Diogenes
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412 - 323 BC; Leading cynic; Preached self control and independence
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Zeno
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342 - 270 BC; Founded Stoicism; urged life according to reason and indifference to pleasure and pain
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Epicurus
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341 - 270 BC; Believed in seeking pleasure and happiness
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Scholasticism
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Method of using pure reason in defense of faith
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Peter Abelard
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1079 - 1142; Wrote Sic et Non (yes and no) of differing views of church leaders on many religious questions
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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1225 - 1274; Greatest medieval philosopher; Wrote Summa Theologica; Summarized christian doctrine and denied conflict between reason and religious faith; Influenced by Aristotle
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