Philosophy: Greek to the Renaissance

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1. Socrates had 3 main students who helped shaped the main movements of philosophy, varying from logic to hedonism. Which of the following were not part of this triad? Democritus Antisthenes Aristippus Euclides

2. Epicurus was generally construed as a pleasure-seeker, although he pursued virtue and the middle-way as the solution to pain and pleasure; inner tranquility then resulted after reaching balance. What is the term for this state of mind? aperion kataphoresis ahimsa ataraxia

3. Who was the philosopher regarded as the 'Socrates gone mad'? Diogenes of Sinope Leucippus Anaxogoras of Clazomenae Aristhenes

4. Seneca asserted that death was the only form of human liberty. One of his contemporary, was known as the 'Orator of Death', because he preached suicide. After a string of suicides in Rome, he was banned from the city limits. Who was he? Epictetus Zenogesias Cato Hegesias

5. He was the first Sceptic philosopher of Greece, accompanying Alexander the Great into India, where he exchanged his ideas on Scepticism with a group of Gymnosophists there. Who was he? Aristotle Sextus Empiricus Pyrrho Seneca

6. What Emperor closed all the schools of Philosophy in Athens ca. AD 529? Justinian Aurelius Nero Constantine

7. Which of the early Greek philosophers described natural selection, in a similar vein to Charles Darwin? Deomocritus Zeno of Citium Parmenides Empedocles

8. With phrases like these- 'Death is all things we see awake; all we see asleep is sleep' and 'Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game'...he was known as the 'Riddler'. Who was he? Diogenes Laertes Pythagoras Socrates Heraclitus

9. 150 lines from his famous 'Way of Truth' describe reality as unchanging and eternal...who was he? Zeno Thales Protagoras Parmenides

10. Who was the inventor of Dialectics? Parmenides Zeno of Elea Plato Diogenes Laertes