Classical greek philosophy

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Aristotle

Motion

Bodies move to achieve their stable ("natural") position

Heavier bodies fall faster

Poetics

Rhetoric

Ethos = power of persuasion created by the character of the speaker (Gettysburg Address)

Pathos = power of persuastion created by the passion of the speaker (I Have a Dream speech)

Ethics Act to avoid extremes

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Thank You

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Zeno

Epicurus

Averroes

Anaximander

Pythagoras

Anaxagoras

Hypatia

Parmenides

Eschines

Alcibiades

Xenophon

Alexander

Socrates

Heraclitus

Plato

Aristotle

Diogenes

Euclid

Zoroaster

Ptolemy

Raphael

Classical Greek Philosophy

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Socrates 470-399 BC

Divided philosophy into 2 groups

Pre-Socratics

After were based upon his ethics and methods

Philosophers versus Sophists

Believed in a single, all powerful God

Used dialectics (Socratic Method) to find ultimate truth

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Socrates

Taken to trial (Apology)

Convicted—he did not put on a defense

Sentenced to death

Drank hemlock (Phaedo)

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

– Socrates

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Plato 427-347 BC

Student of Socrates

Born an aristocrat

Founded the Academy

First university

Purpose-thinking about deeper meanings

Wrote dialogues of Socrates, his own political theory and works of ethics

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Plato

Forms or Ideas

Continuation of Socrates’ "ultimate nature"

Essence of something lies in the Form

Form has perfection

"Ideals" comes from "Idea" = "Form"

Immaterial things also had Forms

For instance: Our remembrance of the Form of beauty allows us to see beauty in other things

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One of Plato’s critics said: “I see particular horses, but not horseness.”

Plato answered: “That is because you have eyes but no intelligence.”

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Plato

Spiritual is more real than the physical (Timaeus)

Physical changes, Form is eternal

Truth cannot be perceived by the senses

Perfection is only found in the Forms