pre-Socratics - answer all Greek philosophers before Socrates
Pythagoras - answer sixth century B.C.E. pre-Socratic - Greek
philosopher and mathematician. He founded a religious
brotherhood, which followed a life of strict asceticism and greatly
influenced the development of mathematics and its application to
music and astronomy
Thales - answer fifth century B.C.E pre-Socratic philosopher, is
sometimes called "the father of Western philosophy". He held that
the first principle, or substance, that everything in the universe is
made out of is water
Parmenides - answer fourth & fifth century B.C.E pre-Socratic
philosopher who denied the existence of time, plurality, and motion.
he is considered the founder of metaphysics
Heraclitus - answer fourth century B.C.E pre-Socratic philosopher,
was said to have believed that everything is in a continuous state of
flux. He was opposed to to the idea of a single and ultimate reality
Zeno - answer fourth century B.C.E pre-Socratic philosopher and a
disciple of Parenides. he was famous for a set of paradoxes, which
are intended to show that plurality and motion do not really exist
Socrates - answer Athenian fourth century B.C.E. philsopher who
supposedly wrote down none of his views, because he believed
writing distorted ideas. His ideas have survived only through the
writings of his followers, most notably Plato
, Atomism - answer belief that matter consists of atoms. Both
Leucippus and democritus were this. They concluded atoms are
different-shaped bits of matter
Plato - answer (427-347 B.C.E.) Greek philosopher: with his teacher
Socrates and his pupil Aristotle, he is regarded as the initiator of
western philosophy. His influential theory of ideas, which makes a
distinction between objects of sense perception and the universal
ideas or forms of which they are an expression, is formulated in
such dialogues as Phaedo, Symposium, and The Republic
Aristotle - answer third century B.C.E. influential Greek philsopher:
Criticized Plat's theory of Forms, was the first to systematize logic
Neoplatonism - answer dominant philosophy in europe from 250 -
1250 C.E. Begun by Plotinus, it is a combination of Plato's ideas and
others such as Aristotle and Pythagoras
St. Anselm - answer eleventh century philosoher: was an Italian
monk who became archibishop of Canterbury. He founded
Scholasticism. Best known for his ontological argument for the
existence of God
St. Thomas Aquinas - answer thirteenth century philosopher who is
best known for his "Five Ways," five proofs of the existence of God.
His philosophy and followers is called Thomism. He is considered
the greatest thinker of the Scholastic School. His Ideas were made
the official Catholic philosophy in 1879
Ockham - answer fourteenth century English philosopher and cleric.
Famous for the dictum "Do not multiply entities beyond necessity"
Hobbes - answer (1588-1679) a British materialist, One of his
famous works is LEVIATHAN, in which he argues that men are selfish
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