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

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

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

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

(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.

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.

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

Plato's writing on how society should be governed

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

A leader who held power through the use of force