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• Philos


  Love
• Sophia


  Wisdom
• Philosophy is love for wisdom
• Western Philosophy origins


  • Ancient Greece
  • Both century
  • B.C.E.
• Western Philosophy aims to uncover the truth through argumentation
• Western Philosophy gives emphasis on reason rather than faith
• Most notable characteristic of Western Philosophy

  • Love for learning
  • Before Socrates
• Pre-Socratics


  First philosophers
• Thales is known to be the father of Western philosophy
• Sophists


  Teachers who travelled throughout Greece
• Sophists' characteristics


  • Excellent speakers
  • Pudic speakers
• Philosophos


  Philosopher or lover of wisdom
• Thales' belief


  Water is the ultimate composition of all things
• Anaximander


  Apeiron (boundless realm)
• Pythagoras


  Pythagorean theorem
• Heraclitus


  Change is constant
• Diogenes of Sinope


  Advocated for a simple and virtuous life
• Cynicism


  Seeing the bad in things
• Stoicism


  Being calm and devoid of emotion
• Epicurus


  Life of happiness through wisdom and simple living
• Epicureanism


  Wisdom and simple living will lead to a life that is free from fear and anxiety
• Socratic method


  A method of questioning
• Socrates' ethics


  Life of virtue
• Plato


  Idealism
• Theory of forms


  Plato's concept of ideal forms
• Dialectic


  Debate through asking questions