Greek terms Flashcards

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Agathon

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Something good / the good

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Aisthesis

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perception / sensation

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Aition/Aitia

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culpability / responsbility / cause

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Alethia

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Truth

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Anamnesis

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Remembrance / recollection

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Andreia

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courage

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Apatheia

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insensibility to suffering / apathy

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Apeiron

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Unlimited / indefinite

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Aporia

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lack of passage with no way out / knot / difficulty

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Arche

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beginning / starting point

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Arete

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excellence / virtue

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Ataraxia

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freedom from passion / tranquility of the soul

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Autarkeia

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self-sufficiency

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Dialektike

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dialectic - dialogue between people who have different views

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Dikaiosune

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justice / righteousness

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Dike

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justice / right order

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Doxa

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Opinion

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Dunamis

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capacity / active or passive power or potentiality

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Eidos

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Appearance / constitutive nature

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Einai

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Greek

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Energia

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functioning / activity / act / actualisation / actuality

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Entelecheia

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state of completion or perfection / actuality

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Episteme

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true and scientific knowledge

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Ergon

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work / deed / product / action

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Eros
desire / love
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Eudaimonia
happiness
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Eusebeia
Piety
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Genesis
birth / coming into being / becoming
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Genos
Kind / genius
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Harmonia
A fitting together / harmony
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Hedone
pleasure
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Horos
boundry / definiiton
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Hyle
material / matter
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Hypokeimenon
Substratum
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Idea
Form, Appearance, Idea
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Kalon
Beautiful, good, noble, right
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Kathoklou
Universal
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Logos
Word / speech / account
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Methexis
'having with' / participation
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Mimesis
Mimicry / imitation
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Noesis
The operation of nous / thinking
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Noeton
capable of being grasped by the intellect
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Nomos
Custom
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Nous
Intelligence
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On/Onta
beings / that which exist
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Ousia
beingness / essence / substance
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Pathos
Experience, suffering, emotion, attribute
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Peras
limit
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Sympatheia
feeling (pathos) with
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techne
craft / skill / art
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telos
completion / end
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theologia
science of the gods
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theoria
contemplation / investigation
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theos
god / divine being
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ti esti
what it is / whatness / formula of what a thing is
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tode ti
'this what' / this / this something / individual
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tyche
Luck / Chance