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| Thales. Anaximander. Anaximenes. |
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MONIST. Permanence: WATER (everything is made of water. Knowledge. Epistemology, logic.
No Concept of change. |
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Permanence: APEIRON (vast, indefinite, infinite.) Belief. Metaphysics, epistemology.
Change: PAIRS OF OPPOSITES. Knowledge. Logic, epistemology. |
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Permanence: AIR (pneuma) Knowledge. Logic, Epistemology.
Change: CONDESATION AND RAREFRACTION.
knowledge. Logic, epistemology. |
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| Presocratic Philosophers influencing Plato. |
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| Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitus. |
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| Pythagoras PRESOCRATIC INFLUENCING PLATO |
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Permanence: NUMBERS. Knowledge. Logic, Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology.
Change: NUMBERS. Knowledge. Logic, Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology. |
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| Heraclitus PRESOCRATIC INFLUENCING PLATO |
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His concept of permanence is change (fire.) Knowledge and belief. Logic, epistemology.
His concept of change is permanence. Both. Logic, eppistemology. |
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| Parmenides PRESOCRATIC INFLUENCING PLATO |
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Permanence: Being. Knowledge. Logic, epistemology.
"What is, is. What is not, is not." |
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Permanence: Love and Strife. (The two motions.) Belief. Metaphysics, Logic, Epistemology.
Change: 4 elements (roots.) Knowledge. Logic, epistemology. |
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Permanence: NOUS. Belief. Metaphysics, Epistemology.
Change: SEEDS. Knowledge. Logic, Epistemology. |
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Permanence: ATOMS. Knowledge. Logic, epistemology.
Change: Void atoms. Knowledge. Logic, epistemology. |
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Protagoras, Thrasmycus, Callicles.
Paid Teachers.
Great Debaters.
Masters of Rhetoric.
Persuasion.
Travelers.
Social scientists.
Power/truth.
Relativism. (Eye of the beholder.)
Opinions/knowledge.
Threatened Athenian elite.
Individualists. |
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| Moral Relativism. Change: "MAN IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS." Knowledge. Logic, ethics, epistemology. |
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| Moral realist. Change: "MIGHT MAKES RIGHT." Knowledge. Logic, ethics, epistemology. |
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| Extreme Moral realist. SUPER INDIVIDUAL. Knowledge. Logic, ethics, epistemology. |
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Hates the Sophists.
Didn't write anything. Everything we know about him we know mostly from Plato. (Also Aristotle and some others.) Stayed in Athens. Killed by Athenian government for "corrupting the youth" and "offending the gods." Taught in Public.
Believed in the beauty of the soul. |
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| A dialectic written about Virtue by Plato. Meno's side is that Virtue is different depending on the person. Virtues. Socrates uses Logic to challenge that. He believes virtue may be the same for everyone. |
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| Saying one thing and doing another. (Sarcasm.) |
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A dialogue by Plato attempting to define Piety or Holiness. Takes place during the weeks leading up to Socrates's trial.
"Who is to say what is holy?" |
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