Western Civ

Terms

  • Philosophy- Love of wisdom
  • Metaphysics- Ultimate Reality
  • Ontology- Study of being
  • Epistemology- Study of knowledge
  • Ethics- Morals right/wrong
  • Rhetoric- Skilled speaking
  • Logic- reasoning
  • Dialectic/Dialogue- conversation
  • Hellenism- Spread of greek culture
  • Telos- end/ goal
  • Tragedy- plays that told of human suffering that usually ended in disaster
  • Cultural diffusion- Spreading of tech and ideas: spreading of culture
  • History- documentation, and study of the past
  • Navy- armed forces at sea
  • Infantry- military fighters
  • Natural philosophy- the study of what makes reality
  • Apologia- a defense statement
  • Utopia- ideal society
  • Authoritarianism- enforcement of obedience with the loss of freedom
  • Empiricism- the belief that knowledge is gained through the senses

People

  • Socrates
      * believed objective truth
      * Socratic method
      * disked by Athenians
  • Plato
      * idealism
      * rationalism
      * the ideal form is known
      * Rationalism
  • Aristotle
      * realism
      * natural philosophy
      * founded modern science
  • Pericles
      * invited other Greeks to find refuge in Athenian walls
      * died of plague
      * built the Parthenon
  • Thucydides
      * History of the Peloponnesian War
      * Survivor of the Peloponnesian War
      * Showed the need to be unbiased
  • Philip II
      * Built a huge army
      * Formed alliances with many Greek city-states
      * He hoped to conquer the city-states south of him
      * conquered Athens and Thebes
  • Alexander the Great
      * Already an experienced soldier
      * Taught by Aristotle
      * He wanted to conquer Persia, like his father

Concepts

  • 7 features of civilization
  • 5 periods of Greek history
  • The Peloponnesian War
  • Greek Drama and Poetry
  • Greek views of history
  • Alexander the Great and Hellenization Greek Art & Architecture
  • Greek philosophy
      * Sophism
      * Stoicism
      * Socratic method
      * Plato’s ideal society (philosopher king)
      * Aristotle’s realism
      * Greek move away from religion to reason

Quotes

  • “Man is the measure of all things” - potagerus
  • “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” -Aristotle
  • “The unexamined life is not worth living” -Socrates
  • “Philosophy begins in wonder” -Plato