Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting
Athens youth
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Socrates
, 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.
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Aristotle
a science that obtains evidence by experience or experimentation
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empirical science
grammar, rhetoric, and logic
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Trivium
Greco-Roman philosophers who urged people to understand the way the world worked
and to live in accordance with it, letting nothing outside of themselves affect their
internal state of well-being
Athens youth
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Socrates
, 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.
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Aristotle
a science that obtains evidence by experience or experimentation
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empirical science
grammar, rhetoric, and logic
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Trivium
Greco-Roman philosophers who urged people to understand the way the world worked
and to live in accordance with it, letting nothing outside of themselves affect their
internal state of well-being
