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The big four Ancient Greek philosophers

Pythagoras Born 495 bce

This mathematician is widely known as the father of numbers. The Pythagorean theorem explains how to calculate the longest side of a right-angled triangle.

Socrates Born 469 bce

Popular and with many followers, he asked questions like, "What is beauty?" His disrespect for the gods madę Athenians angry, and he was sentenced to death.

What is philosophy?

Philosophers raise many questions about existence, knowledge, and reason. The main role of the philosopher is to challenge commonplace ideas and    ¹

suggest new ways of thinking about life. Philosophy means    4

“love of wisdom” in Greek.

Plato

Born 429 bce

Wrote down and shared many of Socrates’ conversations.

His most famous philosophical work was perhaps The Republic, which suggested a new type of government.

Aristotle Born 384 bce

A student at Plato’s academy, Aristotle had a strong interest in science and named many plants on his travels. He taught Alexander the Great.

Six teachlngs of Confucius

(Chinese philosopher, 551-479 bce)

The philosophical bestseller, and one of the most widely read philisophical books ever written, Zen and the Art of Motorcyde Maintenance by Robert Pirsig was rejected by a record-breaking 121 publishers before it was published in 1974.

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Eight famous

Renee Descartes

Immanuel Kant

Seven branches of philosophy

(and the basie ąuestions that they ask)

Aesthetics

What is beautiful or ugly? Epistemology What is knowledge?

Ethics

What is morał (right and wrong)? Logic

What is logie?

Metaphysics What is real?

Political philosophy

What form should government take? Social philosophy

What is society?

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

^^kEverything has TĘ* its beauty, but not everyone sees it.

^J^Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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ILook for an occupation ‘that you like, and you not need to labour for a single day in your life.

^^fcOur greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fali.

(c) 2011 Dorling Kindei

1596-1650 The "father of modern philosophy"

1724-1804

Ouestioned pure reason

I think,

therefore I am

Wr if man makes himself a worm, he must not complain when he is trodden on.