Philosophers info Flashcards
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Socrates
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-born 469 BCE
-was a soldier, but a ‘daemon visit’ chaned his perspective
-asked lots of questions (but why?)
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Plato
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-philophical genius
-set up The Academy (school of philosophy, seen as the first university) in circa 385 BCE
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Pythagoras
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-570-495 BCE
-Best known as a mathmetician
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Heraclitus
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-535-475 BCE
-best known for his concern with constant change in nature
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Aristotle
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-born 384 BCE
-son of the doctor to the king
-one of his greatest discoveries was that he discovered the world was a sphere
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Aquinas
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-1225-1274
-Dominican friar and priest
-mainly known for his beliefs in natural theology
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Rene Descartes
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-1506-1650
-dualist
-largely thought to be the reason attention in epistemology (philosophy of knowledge) in the 17th Century
