Flashcards in Exam 2 Deck (180)
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Define Pre-Socratic period of philosophy
Anything before Socrates
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Define the classical period of philosophy and when was it
450-400 BC during Socrates
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Define Hellenistic period of philosophy
After Socrates
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Name the philosopher demonstrating the Ionia tradition what was his idea of study
Thales
Look at things with questions and analyze. Talking about the material rather then the spirit
Was challenged everything is air and fire
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What was the Pythagorean tradition who created it
Pythagoras
Created Pythagoras theory
The mathematical relationship between things
Relationships to the universe
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What was the Dionysian tradition who created it
Orphics
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What was so dominant about the 5th century BCE Athens
A changing society
Democracy= eliminates many aristocrats
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Education was done by a group of people called________ what did they teach
Sophists
Taught how to answer questions
Were wise the idea of politics
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Who was Socrates, how did people feel about him
Was a philosopher who disliked the sophists and answered and asked questions of WHY
People didn't like him and was put on trial and killed
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What did Ionians study vs what did Socrates study
Ionians= cosmopolitan
Socrates= ethics
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Who was Plato what field did he study
A philosopher who travelled
He studied political philosophy
Said we don't truly see the real
sides to things
Was idealism
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What did Plato do to change the polis
Created specialties
•king
•citizens
•soldiers
•producers
His ideal polis was a CASTE system
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Who was Aristotle
A philosopher was platos pupil
Focused on political philosophy wrote the book Politics
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What is Aristotle often considered
The Golden Mean
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Who were the 4 Hellenistic philosophers
Pyrroh
Diogenes
Epicurus
Zeno
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Who were the 3 philosophers of the pre-Socratic period
Thales
Pythagoras
Orphics
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Who were the 3 philosophers of the classical period (during Socrates)
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
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Who was pyrroh
A philosopher who was SKEPTICAL!
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Who was Diogenes
What was his view
A philosopher who said everything is pointless no need for houses we should live like animals
A cynic view (philosophy for dogs)
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Who was Epicurus
He was a philosopher who believed the universe was made up of little balls (atoms) that RANDOMLY formed themselves
Everything is random maximize pleasure minimize pain
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Who was Zeno
What was his view
What Romanian empire believed in Zeno's ways
A philosopher who taught in a Stoa
Stoic= all brothers of each other be the best you can
Marcus Aurelius (1800AD)
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Describe the land of Rome
What is on the west what is on the east and which river is it on
Similar to Greece
In the east have the Appinanines (mountains)
In the west are plains
On the Tiber river
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What does Mare Nostrum mean
"Our sea" the sea Rome believed was theirs
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What was Latium
A large central plain
With good soil (live volcano)
And cattle
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Where was Rome established (what plain)
When was it established
On Latium
In 753 BCE
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What does civitas mean?
Like a polis
A city or community
(Civilization)
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What was the Via Salaria
A road that was a trade route for salt up the Tiber valley
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What was the Ostia
A port of trade in Rome
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What was south of Rome
Manga Graecia
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