Branches
Ethics.
Who is generally considered the first philosopher in the Western tradition?
Thales.
What does Logos mean?
Word/Reason.
What are the essential two forces of nature according to Empedocles?
Love and hate.
What does telos mean?
Goal, purpose.
What is the study of the good society?
Political Philosophy.
Thales argues the underlying reality of everything was what?
Water.
Who first argued that everything is essentially one and that there is no such thing as change?
Parmenides.
What does monism mean?
That everything is one.
Who were Homer and Hesiod?
Ancient Greek storytellers, poets, myth-makers.
What is the study of knowledge?
Epistemology.
What does aperion mean?
The boundless.
Who argues that nothing remains the same, and that you can't step in the same river twice?
Heraclitus.
Who argued that the sun is a fiery rock?
Anaxagoras.
Name all the four fundamental elements of Empedocles.
Earth, air, fire, water.
What is the study of reality?
Metaphysics.
Who argued that air was the underlying reality of all things?
Anaximenes.
Who said as a metaphor that everything was made up of fire?
Heraclitus.
Democritus believed that what indivisible things made up everything else?
Atoms.
What does impiety mean?
Disrespecting or denying the existence of god(s).
What is the study of beauty?
Aesthetics.
Who came up with the idea of the aperion?
Anaximander.
Who tried to prove his master Parmenides right with his paradoxes of motion?
Zeno.
Which Greek statesman protected Anaxagoras from the mob?
Pericles.
Who were the two main antagonists in the Peloponnesian war?
Athens and Sparta.