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Flashcards by Ricky Randall, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ricky Randall
about 12 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Philosophy | The study/love of knowledge |
| Philia | to love |
| Sophia | Greek for Wisdom |
| Metaphysics | being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space |
| Idealism | stressed importance on ideals and spiritual mind |
| Materialism | stressed importance on the physical |
| Dualism | Both materialism and idealism |
| Epistemology | theory of knowledge |
| Ethics | Moral principles/correctness of behavior |
| Aesthetics | A set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement |
| Logic | Justifiable by reason |
| Homer | ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BCE) |
| Premise | An assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work or theory |
| Conclusion | A judgment or decision reached by reasoning |
| Sophos | Sage, wise ones; interested in rational argument for proof of concepts |
| Thales | Proto Scientist: First to use rational discourse |
| Mythology | #Religious, #mytholgical, #AncientGreece |
| The Principle of Sufficient Reasoning | everything has a reason |
| Cosmology | The study of the universe as a rationally ordered system |
| Ontology | The study of "being" |
| Reducto ad absurdum | reduced to the absurd |
| Logos | word, reason, discourse |
| Pythagoras | Man is the measure of all things; Pythagorean theorem; Pythagoreans: brotherhood for spiritual and mathematical teachings |
| Anaximander | Student of Thales; Apeiron (Indefinite-Infinite) meaning endless; Principle of Sufficient Reason |
| Anaximander | Student of Thales; Apeiron (Indefinite-Infinite) meaning endless; Principle of Sufficient Reason |
| Anaximenes | Student of Anaximander; Pneuma (air) Everything is composed of air |
| Parmenides | Beginning of Ontology; Believed in "being"; founded School of Elea |
| Zeno of Elea | reductio ad absurdum; known for his paradoxes; student a Parmenides |
| Empedocles | four classical elements; Pluralist; supported reincarnation |
| Democritus | created Atomic theory; everything consists of voids; perception is subjective, truth is at the bottom |
| Heraclitus | coined the term Logos; Weeping philosopher (melancholia); ever-present change in the universe; unity of opposites |
| Protagoras | Sophist; "Man is the measure of all things"; concerned with virtue, relativism, language, ethics |
| Socrates | Socratic Method - stimulate critical thinking Was tried for atheism, corrupting the youth; Hung out at the stairs of the Sentate to engage others |
| Plato | Student of Socrates; Wrote works such as the Apology and Crito; Plato spend many years writing Socratic dialogues |
| Aristotle | Student of Plato; Walking philosopher; Mentored Alexander the Great; Conceived the Four Causes |
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