Use rhetoric as a means of argumentation and persuasion - like our friend Phil Davidson
Sophists
Considered to be the father of Modern Thought and was known to be a 'gadfly' because of his insistence of questioning authority.
Socrates
Pythagoras' famous theorem
A2 + B2 = C2
The study of knowledge and the investigation of fact, opinion, and justified belief.
Epistemology
If I am being executed, what is my last meal?
Answers will vary
Believed knowledge is the highest virtue and thus the highest good: Focused on the Eudomonia.
Stoics
Believed that happiness lied at the midpoint between extremes
Aristotle
experience
Responses will vary
Who did Rocky Balboa defeat first become the Heavyweight Champion of the World
Apollo Creed
Argued that the secret to the good life was in the enjoyment of small, individual moments that when added up over a lifetime would equal "good life"
Epicureans
Explored abstract concepts like truth and justice
Plato
Cult of Pythagoras which stressed a dispassionate, logical view of the world and humanity.
Mathematokoi
In what way is Plato's Cave an example of Epistemology?
Name two of the MLB teams currently in the playoffs.
Mets Royals
Phillies Yankees
Dodgers Guardians
Padres Tigers
Though distrustful of those in power and of large systems, they did not believe all people were evil or bad.
Cynics
Taught that existence consisted in two states: Ideas and Forms
Plato
Why is baseball an potential example of an Akousmatokoi interpretation of the world?
Different rules, fields, experiences
In metaphysics, how can seemingly contradictory things be simultaneously true?
Perspective, interpretation. Belief in a world that is not objective, but rather subjective.
What did I write about for my dissertation?
The Camino
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Ultimately rejected the teachings of the Big Three - in many ways was the ultimate disappointment.
Alexander
Why was Hippasus of Metapontum killed?
He pointed out the existence of irrational numbers.
Causing some sort of physical or emotional response.
The best fast-food restaurant
Taco Bell