| A | B |
| Socrates | The unexamined life is not worth living. |
| Socrates | Thought thinking logically might help us be less conformist. |
| Socrates | Executed by hemlock. |
| Socrates | Accused of corruption of youth and atheism. |
| Socrates | Apparently not classically handsome. |
| Socratic irony | Wisest is he who knows he does not know. |
| Socratic dialogue | Using questions to reach logical truths. |
| Socratic method | 1) Make statement of common sense 2) Try to find exception 3) If find one, statement is false 4) Restate new statement 5) Continue to find exceptions |
| Socrates problem with democracy | Tyranny of the majority |
| Socrates apology | His defense |
| Delphi | Know thyself |
| Plato | Allegory of the Cave |
| Plato | Republic |
| Plato | Workers, Warriors, Philosopher Kings |
| Dialectic | Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis |
| Plato | Recorded Socrates Apology and Dialogues |
| Descartes | Father of Western Philosophy |
| Descartes | I think therefore I am; Cogito ergo sum |
| Descartes | Rationalist |
| Rationalism | Using logic and thinking to determine truths |
| Empiricism | Using senses to determine knowledge |
| Epistemology | The philosophical branch related to how we know what we know |
| Ontological Argument | Proving the existence of God |
| Locke | Empiricist |
| Locke | Tabula Rasa; blank slate |
| Prima facia | At first glance |
| Locke | Natural laws of man |
| natural laws | Made by all-powerful being, born free, born equal |
| Nietzsche | Suffering and failure bring happiness |
| Nietzsche | Nihilistic |
| Nietzsche | Had a big moustache and went crazy from syphillis |
| Nietzsche | Live dangerously |
| Nietzsche | That which doesn't kill me makes me stronger. |
| Nietzsche | Overman, superman, ubermensch |
| Nietzsche | Man must rise above natural human failings and self-pitying |
| Nietzsche | God is dead |
| Nietzsche | Alcohol and religion are bad because they ease suffering. |
| Sartre | existentialist |
| Sartre | Man is condemned to be free. |
| Sartre | Our choices determine who we are |
| DeBouvoir | Feminist who believed nothing essential to identity |
| DeBouvoir | Existentialist |
| Freud | Id, Ego, Super Ego |
| Freud | Man is driven by desires |
| Freud | Repression is when we bury our unconscious desires |
| Freud | Ego Defenses |
| Arendt | Thoughtlessness leads to evil |
| Arendt | Must think from the standpoint of someone else. |
| Arendt | Discussed Nazi Eichmann as being evil because of his banality |
| Berns | 16 year-old who told us to 1)Focus on Can 2) Surround yourself with good people 3) Look forward and 4) Never miss a party |
| Sir Kenneth Robinson | Educator who thinks we need to shift the paradigm of education from one that is based more on aesthetics |