Sophies World Timeline

As represented in the writings of his disciple Plato, he engaged in dialogue with others in an attempt to reach understanding and ethical concepts by exposing and dispelling error (the Socratic method). Charged with introducing strange gods and corrupting the young, he committed suicide as required. Faith and human reason. I know that I know nothing.

A disciple of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, he founded the Academy in Athens. His theory of “ideas” or “forms” contrasts abstract entities or universals with their objects or particulars in the material world. His philosophical writings are presented in the form of dialogues, and his political theories appear in the Republic

a member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control

Categorized nature, formal cause and final cause.

Cogito ergo sum- I think therefore I am. He concluded that everything was open to doubt except conscious experience and existence as a necessary condition of this. Rationalist

Tabula Rasa (blank slate) revolutionary thinker. Life, liberty, property. Influenced founding fathers

God is not a puppeteer
God or nature” as a single infinite substance, with mind and matter being two incommensurable ways of conceiving the one reality

English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion

We only exist in the mind of god.

Complex idea, treatise or human nature.