HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY MIDTERM

PHI 301 History of Ancient Philosophy

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Front Back
Pre-Socratic Period
585 BC - Socrates
Period of Schools
Socrates - 100 BC
Period of School
100 BC - 529
Milesian Naturalists
-Thales: Water -Heraclitus: Fire -Anaximander: Apeiron Anaximenes: Air
Thales
Water
Heraclitus
Fire
Anaximander
Apeiron
Anaximenes
Air
Parmenides
-only pure reason will result in the understanding of the truth of the world. -reductio ad absurdum. -nothing comes into or goes out of existence.
Pluralists-names of figures
Empedocles Anaxagoras Leucippus (atomonist) Democritus (atomonist)
Socrates
469BC-399 BC
Euthyphro
Early -Piety -Once rid of his false beliefs, Socrates assumes that Euthyphro will have the wisdom about piety he claimed for himself at the outset of the conversation
Gorgias
Early
Protagoras
Early
Apology
Early