PHIL 1000 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - World War I, Wax, Twelve Nidānas
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Student of plato: plato"s best student and critic. The goal of philosophy is dialectic: among for truth. (no point of holding a position that is not close to the truth) whoever can argue best. Men are rational animals: humans have the capacity to think rationally. One that provides for the well being of all citizens. The more you ask questions, the more you make them realize they"re wrong. The most important roll of the government is to educate its citizens. Similar values: one of the values would be equalized. Not providing it: would be a threat to constitution. 323 b. c - 30 b. c: starts roman empire. All schools: achieve happiness, achieve ataraxia: absence of pain, how to attain self-sufficiency. Cynicism: most closely aline to socrates" way of life: social corruptors . Denying the possibility of knowledge, or even rational belief, in some sphere.