The Philosophers
The gadfly of Athens because he annoyed everyone with his questions
Socrates
This subject is the art of persuasion
Rhetoric
Based on its roots philosophy means simply
love of wisdom
All men by nature desire _________. Aristotle, Metaphysics
To know
Plato’s ideal ruler and model citizen was the educated _______
Rome’s most famous philosopher and orator, his name means chickpea, but he used to be known by the nickname Tully
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Traditionally described as the study of quantities
Arithmetic
The word liberal in liberal arts derives from the Latin word for:
“Free”
When threatened with enough Persians arrows to block out the sun, the Spartan Leonidas replied, "Won't that be nice, then..."
We can fight in the shade.
The aim of Roman education was to...
Participate in Roman public life
St Thomas Aquinas refers to him simply as The Philosopher.
Aristotle
Traditionally described as the study of magnitudes
Geometry
A method of argumentation in the Middle Ages, meaning literally “to think in two ways”
Disputation
What Spartan women told their men when they handed them their shields for battle “Come back ________or ______.”
With it or on it
The medieval philosophy of education and instruction; later derided by the early modern thinkers
Scholasticism
He tangled with Martin Luther and is often called the Prince of [Classical] Humanism
Erasmus
The other name for the subject of Logic
Dialectic
So called because they are the virtues upon which all other virtues “hinge”
Cardinal virtues
When asked where he was from Socrates said, “I am a citizen of _______”
The world
The study of classical learning during the Renaissance came to be called
Humanism
Alfred North Whitehead said tha all philosophy was merely footnotes to _____.
Plato
In effect it is the study of geometry in motion
Astronomy
Originally it meant simply “manliness” deriving from the Latin word for man (vir)
Erasmus: When I have a little money I buy _______. If I have any left I buy clothes and food.
Books
This Catholic religious order organized classical education in a more formal structure known as the Ratio Studiorum
The Jesuits