Terms and Key Words - Chapter 8
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31 terms
Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Hellenic culture |  overall Greek achievement |
| philosophy | "love of wisdom" |
| Pre-Socratics | Greek philosophers investigated origin & nature of physical world |
| natural law | set phenomena explain why |
| Anaximander | father theory evolution |
| Hippocrates | founder scientific medicine |
| empiricist | general theories after careful, prolonged observation |
| Socrates | first philosopher focused on ethical |
| epistemological | truth-establishing |
| Socratic method | systematic questioning |
| Plato | pupil & admirer of Socrates |
| metaphor of the cave | how mind experiences & recognizes truth & ultimate reality |
| Aristotle | universal genius & pupil of Plato |
| "the Master" | early Christian/Muslim reference to Aristotle |
| Cynicism | Diogenes emphasis return to absolute simplicity |
| Epicureanism | principle goal of life pleasure = avoidance of pain |
| Stoicism | largest following Hellenistic population - one law for all |
| Alexandria | great city Hellenistic Egypt |
| the Lyceum | Aristotle's famous school in Athens |
| heliocentric | Earth revolved around sun |
| geocentric | universe cetnered on Earth |
| Eratosthenes | accurately calculated circumference of Earth |
| humanistic | human beigns second to gods |
| the golden mean | Greek ideal of middle ground |
| hubris | false overconfidence |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles tragedy expressive hubris punished |
| mystery religions | faith rather than reason + promise eternal life |
| the Parthenon | main Athenian temple |
| Euripides, Aeschylus & Sophocles | great trio tragic dramatists |
| Aristophanes | first noted comic playwright |
| misogyny | distrust & dislike of women |
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