Basic Concepts
The literal meaning of the word philosophy is the following.
What is love of wisdom?
He maintained that the basic elements of the universe are atoms.
Who is Democritus?
Socrates was born and died in this Greek city.
What is Athens?
It was Plato's school of philosophy in Athens.
What is the Academy?
Aristotle studied in this school for more than 20 years.
What is Plato's Academy?
He is the first person to use the term philosopher to describe himself.
Who is Socrates?
He claimed that the universe is in a state of flux kept by the fire.
Who was Heraclitus?
Socrates was proclaimed by the Oracle of Delphi to be this.
Who is the wisest of all Greeks?
He was the teacher of Plato.
Who is Socrates?
This student of Aristotle became very famous.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This term refers to the part of philosophy that examines the nature of reality.
What is metaphysics?
Anaximander introduced this term for the basic substance of the universe.
What is apeiron?
Socrates is famous for making this claim about his state of knowledge.
What is "I know that I know nothing."
Plato wrote his works in this literary form.
What is a dialogue?
Aristotle believed that the essence of moral virtue is choosing this state.
What is moderation?
This is the area of philosophy that examines values and rules of conduct.
What is ethics?
He introduced the distinction between Being and Non-Being in philosophy.
Who is Parmenides?
In 1787, he created a famous painting depicting the death of Socrates.
Who is Jacques-Louis David?
Plato believe that the acquisition of knowledge is best described by this term.
What is recollection?
This term completes the list of four causes identified by Aristotle, material cause, formal cause, , and final cause.
What is an efficient cause?
The term epistemology literally means the following.
What is the study of knowledge?
The modern experiments in Cymatics reflect the teachings of this philosopher.
Who is Pythagoras?
She was the wife of Socrates.
Who is Xanthippe?
Plato gave us the following definition of knowledge.
What is true and justified belief?
It was the school of Aristotle in Athens.
What is the Lyceum?