Plato & Platonic Philosophy
These are the dates (years only) of Plato's birth and death.
428-347 BCE
What is Stagira?
This was the year in which Alexander ascended to the throne as ruler of Macedon.
What is 336 BCE?
The fact that this city-state switched sides from Sparta to Athens after the Peloponnesian War led to the Corinthian War.
What was Corinth?
This famous teacher of Plato's was prosecuted and put to death for the charge of corrupting the youth.
Who was Socrates?
Before he became a philosopher, Aristotle followed his father into this profession.
What was the field of medicine or being a doctor?
This famous woman was Alexander's mother and she was also rumored to have been involved with the assassination of Alexander's father later.
Who was Olympias?
This large empire offered to mediate between the warring city-states of Greece during the Corinthian War, but they had a hidden agenda to keep the Greek states weak and at war with one another.
What was Persia or the Persian Empire?
This was the name of Plato's famous school, founded just outside Athens in the early 4th century BCE.
What was the Academy?
Aristotle's philosophy was different than Plato's because Aristotle put more emphasis on observing ___________ where Plato seemed preoccupied with spiritual matters.
What is the material world or natural world (would accept nature here)?
This person was the father of Alexander and the ruler of Macedon before he was.
Who was Philip II?
This peace treaty ended the Corinthian War, although new conflicts, especially between Thebes & Sparta, would take its place.
What is the King's Peace?
This class of people, distinct from the producers and the auxiliaries, were to be the rulers in Plato's concept of society laid out in the Republic.
Who were the guardians?
Aristotle is credited with developing the this model of the universe that theorized the Sun revolved around the Earth.
What is the geocentric model of the universe?
This present-day country marks the farthest point east they travelled during Alexander's expedition.
What is India?
Although he only participated at the end of the Corinthian War, this general and his mercenary companions joined the Athenian side upon their return from Persia.
Who was Xenophon?
This theory of Plato's holds that the idea of a chair, for instance, is more permanent and therefore more real than a chair someone built.
What is the Theory of Forms?
Aristotle wrote that this is the most important science in his work The Nicomachean Ethics.
What is politics or political science? (a ruler or government determines what is allowed to be taught)
This was the city in which Alexander of Macedon died in 323 BCE when he was about 30 years old.
What was Babylon?
This was the name of Xenophon's famous account of fighting as a mercenary in Persia, losing the war, and conducting a fighting retreat back home to Greece at the same time as the Corinthian War.
What was the Anabasis?