Greek Philosophers Use Reason

What do we call a lover of wisdom?

• Mr. Duran

• Philosopher

• Socrates

• Juries

the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, justice, beauty, validity, mind, and language

• Philosophy

• Aristocracy

• Politics

• Devine Right

Questions that are theoretical and rhetorical. ex: What happens after we die?

• Written Laws

• Logic & Reason

• Three Branches

• Philosophical Questions

People understand the nature of the universe, human society, and morality through...

• Educated Guesses

• Trial & Error

• Logic & Reason

• My mom told me

Greek philosopher; Socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth

• Aristotle

• Plate

• Ceasar Augustus

• Socrates

(430-347 BCE) Was a disciple of Socrates whose cornerstone of thought was his theory of Forms, in which there was another world of perfection.

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Socrates

• Jesus

Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system, which led him to criticize what he saw as Plato's metaphysical excesses, theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is the essential method of rational inquiry.

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Socrates

• Muhammed

in "The Republic", Plato proposed that the true rulers of society should be?

• Monarchs

• Aristocrats

• Philosopher Kings

• Democracy

Plato's writing on how society should be governed

• The Republic

• Magna Carta

• Bill of Rights

• Politics

Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of government (who gets what, when, and how)

• Government

• Politics

• Direct Democracy

• Republic