Humanities Clep Test | 765 Questions and Answers(A+ Solution guide)

Greek Philosophers Before Socrates - Pre-Socrates Pythagoras - 6th Century B.C., a Greek philosopher and mathematician, founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism Thales - "Father of Western Philosophy". Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water. Parmenides - a pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time, plurality, and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics. Heraclitus - a presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change). Zeno - ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC) Socrates - Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato). Atomism - The idea that matter is made out of atoms Atomists - Leucippus and Democritus Plato - one of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state, the people were divided into three different groups.Aristotle - 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.