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This thinker, forced to drink hemlock in 399 BCE, never wrote down his teachings but influenced Western thought through his famous student's dialogues.
- Anaximander
- Pythagoras
- Socrates
- Thales
This concept, central to Hinduism and Buddhism, refers to the cycle of death and rebirth that souls experience.
- Nirvana
- Samsara
- Dharma
- Moksha
Plato argued that genuine understanding requires more than just true opinion—it also requires this crucial element.
- Emotion
- Justification
- Intuition
- Memory
The philosophical view that only the mind and mental states truly exist, and physical matter is either an illusion or dependent on minds.
- Materialism
- Idealism
- Dualism
- Nihilism
This ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, tutored Alexander the Great and founded the Lyceum in Athens.
- Aristotle
- Socrates
- Pythagoras
- Heraclitus
This ancient Greek city-state is often called the birthplace of democratic governance, where citizens gathered to vote directly on laws.
- Athens
- Sparta
- Corinth
- Thebes
This ancient Greek philosophy, founded in Athens around 300 BCE, taught that virtue is the highest good and that we should focus only on what we can control.
- Stoicism
- Epicureanism
- Cynicism
- Skepticism
The Academy, often called the first university in the Western world, was founded in Athens around 387 BCE by this student of a famous executed philosopher.
- Plato
- Xenophon
- Aristotle
- Antisthenes
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