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| The first systematic treatment of political philosophy every written, it argued for an elitist state in which most people would be governed by intellectually superior “philosopher-kings” |
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| The treatise on moral philosophy by Aristotle, which teachers that the highest good consists of the harmonious functioning of the individual human mind and body |
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| (382 – 336 BCE): The Macedonian King who consolidated the Balkans and the Greek city-states; he was the father of Alexander |
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| (356 – 323 BCE) The Macedonian general who conquered northwest Asia Minor, and Persia, and built an empire that stretched as far east as the Indus River. |
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| (c. 85 – 165 CE) One of the most influential Ancient Greeks; he was a leading astronomer , mathematician, and geographer who lived his entire life in Alexanderia and helped to transform that city into a center of scientific study and scholarship. |
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| (d. 280 BCE) The Macedonian general who ruled the Asian Territory of Alexander the Great’s empire and founded Greek colonies such as Antioch and Selsucia |
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| (342 BCE ?-292 BCE) Ancient Greek dramatist who wrote over 100 plays, many of which were standards of Western Literature for hundreds of years. Only one complete surviving play is known, The Grouch, which was rediscovered in 1957 |
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| Greek philosophy that emphasized the individual, denied the existence of spiritual forces, and proposed that the highest good is pleasure. |
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| The ancient Greek and Roman philosophy that held that the cosmos is an ordered whole in which all contradictions are resolved for ultimate good. Everything that happens is rigidly determined in accordance with rational purpose, and no individual is master of his or her fate. Founded in the fourth century BCE, and still popular well into the 5th century CE. |
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| Hellenistic mathematician whose books Elements of Geometry was the basis of modern geometry. |
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