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Ionia
Home of first phiosophers ever
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Thales
- First philosopher
- water was foundation of everything
- first person to predict an eclipse
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Anaximander
- the "Boundless" was foundation of everything
- air was primary element
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Pythagoras
thought that math rocked
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Parminides
- combined philosophy and logic
- founder of modern arguing
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metaphysics
"Dude, like, what's it all about man? Like, why are we even here?"
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Democritus
- "I'll believe it when I see it" kind of guy
- two fundamental realities:empty space, infinate number of atoms
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Hippocrates
- detailed records
- classified symptoms
- predicted future symptoms and whatnot
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Sophists
- wandering teachers
- relativists-no one truth is universally valid
- attacked idea of sophrosyne(moderation of self discipline)
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Socrates
- many similarities with Sophists, as well as profound differences
- attacked reletivism
- wanted to remove ethics from authority, tradition, dogma, superstion, and myth
- wrong thoughts=wrong actions
- knowing what is right=doing right
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dialectics
- created by Socrates
- learning by answering questions and having conversations
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Plato
- studied under Socrates
- Realm of Ideas-higher plane where thoughts and dreams live
- Just State-reformation based on rational principles
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Aristotle
- super awsome at everything
- more down to Earth than Plato
- to live the good life you must be politically active
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Sappho
- Woman poet from Lesbos
- poems about friendship and love
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Pindar
- lyric poet
- believed that life sucked but people should try hard anyway
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Thespis
Fist known actor ever
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Hesiod
- Theogony-lots of mythology, influence on philosophy
- Works and Days-toil of working man
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Aeschylus
- playwright
- fought in battle of Marathon
- urged conservative beliefs and values
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Sophocles
excelled at dramatic technique and character portrayal
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Euripides
- wrote tragedies
- subjected humanity to critical analysis
- challenged human conventions
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Aristophanes
- Greek comedy writer
- criticized Socrates in The Clouds
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Herodotus
"father of history"
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Thucydides
concentrated on political crisis of Peloponnesian war
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