C/H Religion/Philosophy

from Classical/Hellenic Greece; school created by Plato which taught mostly math. It closed down because the people didn’t want pagan theories going around

from Classical/Hellenic Greece; philosopher; believed that ideas cannot exist outside of their physical manifestations. He also divided knowledge into categories which were kept for thousands of years.

from Classical/Hellenic Greece; philosopher; Founder of cynic philosophy.

from Classical/Hellenic Greece, philosopher; Created the word “Logos” which was adopted by the New Testament to mean the “Word of God”

from Classical/Hellenic Greece; Athenian school founded by Aristotle; Fell with the fall of Athens

from Classical/Hellenic Greece; philosopher; believed that truth and justice existed only as ideal models. Preserved Socrates’ ideas since he did not leave any writings.

from Classical/Hellenic Greece; mathematician; believed that order in the universe was based on numbers (not water). He was so respected that his followers developed a religious cult in his name.

from Classical/Hellenic Greece; philosopher; He developed his ideas as a reaction against the Sophists’ moral relativism. Since he left no writings, his ideas were preserved by his student Plato.

from Classical/Hellenic Greece; traveled from place to place to teach rhetoric and literary analysis. It is now considered a specious argument used for deceiving someone.

from Classical/Hellenic Greece; philosopher; believed in an orderly cosmos that was accessible to human reason. This formed the heart of much subsequent Greek and Western inquiry

from Classical/Hellenic Greece; philosopher; Zeno's paradoxes have puzzled, challenged, influenced, inspired, philosophers, mathematicians, and physicists for over two millennia.