| A | B |
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| Philosophers | lovers of wisdom |
| Socrates | 1. No writing only as written by Plato. 2. Most famous work is Apology. |
| Socrates Apology 2 ideas | 1. Necessity of doing what's right 2. Need to pursue knowledge no matter the costs |
| Elencrius-Socrates developed | Says questioning will lead to a contradiction and closer to truth-Called Socratic Questioning |
| Dialect (Socrates) | Truth must continually be pursued , discovering truth is ongoing |
| Main focus (Socrates) | Exploring Ethics-study of behaviour, morals, moral philosophies |
| Similar in though to sophists | Socrates |
| Plato | Least sexist of philosophers |
| Plato | Student of Socrates founded the Academy |
| Plato | Wrote the Republic-eals with hot to live a good life |
| The Republic | 1. What is good government/state 2. What is good citizen/individual |
| Plato-4 components of ideal government/person | courage, wisdom, temperance, and justice |
| Republic | First western work of political theory |
| Plato-The Allergory of the Cave and the Divided Line | 2 worlds 1. visible-world of change and uncertaintly that we see, measure and sense 2. intelligible-unchanging that we cannont measure or sense and must infer |
| Plato | Who felt democracy didnt' work because voters aren't qulaified to make decisions |
| Aristotle | Pupil of Plato |
| Aristotle | Founded the Lyceum School |
| Aristotle | Taught Alexander the Great |
| Aristotle | Invents imperial science and indictive reasoning |
| Inductive reasoning | observing as many examples as possible and then working out the underlying general principles |
| Inductive reasoning | foundation ofo the Western scientific method |
| Aristotle | Evaluates quality of evidence when solving a problem |
| Aristotle | Introduced the classification of knowledge and epistemology |
| Epistemology | The study of knowledge |
| Aristotle | Probability vs. certaintly-one cannot expect the same levels of certainty in politics as in logic |
| Aristotle | Took as truth that everything is constantly changing and some things is causing that change |
| Aristotle | The Doctrine of the Mean |
| The Doctring of the Mean | Morality and ethics are relative to a situation-the context of an action makes a difference in whether it is right or wrong |
| Aristotle | Truth is elusive |
| Stoicism | Founder Zeno absolute truth beyond this world can't be found, but truth in this world can be found through reason. People should accept life and work and study hard to understand it. |
