Intro to Philosophy Timeline
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Lao Tzu
~600 BC
China
"Follow the Tao,
the invisible source of things-
it is like water."Parmenides
~475 BC
Greek colony in southern Italy
"What is, is!
And what is not, is not!"Socrates
Dies in 399 BC
Athens - democratic city-state
"All I know is that I know nothing."Gorgias the Sophist
Comes to Athens ~427 BC
Athens - democratic city-state
"The spoken word is a mighty lord-
Helen is not to blame!"Plato
Athens
Student of Socrates, the "next generation"
Dies in 348 BC
Writes down what Socrates says,
but also develops his own ideas,
like the "theory of the forms."
"Education is the turning of the soul."Aristotle
Athens
Dies in 322 BC
Student of Plato, the "next generation"
A realist, he disagrees with Plato (an idealist)
"Happiness is the end goal of all our actions."Периоды
Rise and fall of the Roman Empire
148 BC - 476 AD
Continuation of Platonic and Aristotelian traditions
"Lifestyle philosophies"- Stoicism, Epicureanism, SkepticismDevelopment of Christian theology
~800 to ~1300 BC
Inherits the classical tradition from the Islamic world
Medieval scholasticism - philosophy becomes religious in its orientation,
but also very technical, precise definitions about very abstract concepts
(remember Parmenides)
Ex: Thomas Aquinas' "transcendentals":
“being,” "thing", "one", "something", "good", and "true" are all "convertible,"
i.e. aspects of one eternal, ultimate truth (this is Parmenides on steroids)
Important names: Averroes, Ansel
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