Before Philosophy
Presocratics
Plato and Marx
A and AI
The Gods!
100

This philosopher used shadows to allude to the ancient myth makers

Plato

100

This thinker’s worldview was incorporated into the Allegory of the Cave through the fire at the cave’s center.

Heraclitus

100

In his infamous book, Dad Capital, Marx posits this “ghost like substance” as the true origin of all values. 

Abstract Human Labor

100

This mathematician proved that for all systems are necessarily incomplete.

Goedel

100

According to the ancient Egyptians, this deity was the primordial water god.

Nun

200

A pre philosophical concept that referred to an ultimate moral parameter

Moira

200

This Italian philosopher thought motion was an illusion.

Parmenides

200

Plato’s most famous student was this pre-Hellenistic thinker:

Aristotle

200

Prime Mover, Efficient Cause, Necessary Being, Gradation, and this additional “way” constitute Aquinas’ proofs for the existence of God.

Governance.

200

This deity had a cult in Miletos

Achelous

300

This writer listed the Gods chronologically

Hesiod

300

Anaximenes described his arche as what type of cause?

Constitutive

300

In the Myth of Er, these half-bird, half human daughters of Achelous orchestrate the unfolding of the cosmos.

Sirens

300

This mathematician not only created the concept of artificial intelligence, he also helped save the world.

Alan Turing

300

In Homer, all the gods and all things come from this deity

Okeanos

400

Later interpolations in his work placed Achelous in a subordinate positions to Okeanos

Homer

400

This person’s arche is alluded to in the heavens outside of Plato’s cave, just after the prisoner can see the objects of the world.

Anaximander

400

if true knowledge must be of something that is, what sort of knowledge concerns the world of appearances?

Belief

400

This form of intelligence is the only form that matters, according to Turing.

Demonstrable

400

The oldest person to be associated with Achelous is this ancient mystic

Orpheus

500

In the first lines of these two works, Homer presents us with his basic anthropological vision of man.

Iliad and Odyssey

500

When the prisoner can see the forms themselves, just before glimpsing Being itself, Plato is alluding to which Presocratic?

Pythagoras

500

Plato used this river to stage the dialogue in the Republic, because it concerns a boundary.

Peras

500

Aquinas’ third way shows that, if time is infinite, what must be the case?

All possibilities are actualized

500

In Homer’s Iliad, not even Lord Achelous is equal to this deity.

Zeus