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Ancient greek Philosophers

By nhogan
  • Period: 322 to

    Aristotle's Life

    Aristotle based all of his philosaphy on systematic logic all under universal reasoning. He questioned what man was. He asked if man was just flesh and bones made up a man. He calls this the cause of being. This differs us from who or what ever else we may be compared to. He was the tutor of Alexander the Great
  • Period: Jan 1, 700 to Jan 2, 1200

    Homers potential life span

    Homer in theory is a man that is a great educater of all of Greece. There is very little information on homer because ther is no actual record of him. Even though his birth and death is not confirmed.
  • Period: to 470

    Socrates Life

    Was considered by his pupils as the great debator and how he would ask series' of questions to let himself and his pupils think and create all thought themselves. He also believed that determining if an act was good was based on the happiness of the person in the outcome. Socrates also said that the Ultimate wisdom is the knowledge of oneself. Socrates died because he was put on trial and executed for being an athiest and questioning the gods. He was also the teacher of Plato.
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    Plato's Life

    Plato's Allegory of the Cave is a theory that if there is a group of people chained by their legs and necks and all they see is a wall and the objects that pass by a light source. Those object become real to the people in the cave.But what if one person escaped the cave and made their way out to the real world their mind would probably be blown. Plato then suggest that the shadows of the objects on the wall became reall to the people but if the object is more real than the shadow.
  • Period: to

    plato cont

    He wondered if there was something more real than the object. That is when Plato decided that the realm that is more real than reality is called the realm of being. Plato wondered if we will ever get to that realm but as humans we are stuck in the realm of becoming and changing. Plato was also the teacher of Aristotle.