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What did Thales think was the substance
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Water (Ice, Steam)
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Anaximander
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Boundless
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Anaximenes
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Air
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Pythagoras
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Numbers
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Heraclitus
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Change, Fire, Empiricisim, Logos
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Parmenedes
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No change, senses deceive
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Empedocles
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Water, air, fire, earth
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Anaxagoras
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Seeds, nous
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Democritus
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Atoms, Materialist, Laws of necessity, existence determined by physical laws
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Sophists
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Travelors, paid teachers
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Gorgias
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Taught the art of deception
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Thracymachus
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Might is Right
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Oracle of Delphi
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Know Thyself
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Socrates
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Care of soul greatest priority
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Socrates
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unexamined life not worth living
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Evil is disease
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Socrates
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Parents were midwife and stonecutters
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Socrates
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Student of Socrates
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Plato
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Dialogues, Myth of the Cave, Republic
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Plato
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Apology, The Acadamy
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Plato
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Divided Line, ideas and senses, Intelligible, visible worlds
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Plato
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Tripartite, reason, will, appetite; wisdom courage, self-control
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Plato
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Demiurge, Receptacle, Forms, Ideas, Molds, Patterns
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Plato
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Negative view of aesthetics...they are just a copy
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Plato
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Father was a physician, Student of Plato, Teacher of Alexander the Great
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Aristotle
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Unmoved mover, first deist
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Aristotle
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Form is characteristics categorized, biologically
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Aristotle
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Women are unfinished men
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Aristotle
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Golden Mean, harmony between extremes, balance.
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Aristotle
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Virtue is choosing to do good, result of habit, ethics are habit
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Aristotle
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Humans are political Animals
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Aristotle
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Lyceum teacher, forced to leave Athens or die.
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Aristotle
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What a lot of things I don't need
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Cynicism
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Life in a Barrel
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Diogones
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Highest Good is pleasue, greatest evil is pain
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Epicurean
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Here you will live well, Pleasure is the highest good,
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Epicurean
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Distinguish between what you can and cannot control
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Stoicism
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Wisdom to control what you can, accept with dignity what you can't
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stoicism
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Hericlitus influence, universal brotherhood, political responsibility, Helenistic
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Stoics
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Marcus Aurelius, Cicero
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Stoics
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Plato's influence, emanation from the One/Light, Transcendent God, ideas, world sould
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Neoplatonism
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Evil=absense of order, absence of light, Salvation by moral and intellectual virtues
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Neoplatonism
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Mystical union via self surrender, reincarnation, try, try again
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Neoplatonism
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Rationalism emphasis of knowing, "Confessions", manichaenism-dualism (good and evil)
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Augustine
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True knowledge involves faith and reason, Christianized Plato, ex nihilo Creation
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Augustine
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Ideas in the Divine Minde, disorders love, philosophy of history, City of God
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Augustine
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Christianized Aristotle, empiricism emphasis of knowing, Albert the great, 2 paths to God...Scripture, Senses
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Thomas Aquinas
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5 proofs for God's existence, teleological "Watch Maker",
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Thomas Aquinas
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Two paths to morality, scripture and conscience, happiness is finding your end in God
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Aquinas
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4 laws- Eternal-Divine Reason governs universe, Natural-reasoin in everyone, Human-government rules, divine-special revelation...Legitimacy of the state
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Aquinas
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