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Philosophers Historians and Accademics
| Questions |
Answers |
| A piece of literature Plato wrote. It presented his plan for an ideal society and government. |
The Republic |
| The mean is the middle position between two extremes. The idea of the this word is that people should live moderately. |
Golden Mean |
| This philosopher believed in absolute truth and that all real knowledge was within each person. In his search for truth, he created a new way of questioning called the |
Socrates |
| Instead, he asked pointed questions and waited for his students to respond. |
Socratic method |
| This philosopher was one of Socrates' students. He became a teacher and founded a school in Athens called the Academy. He wrote The Republic. It presented his plan for an ideal society and government. He distrusted Athenian democracy and believed t |
Plato |
| He wrote more than 200 works on topics such as government, astronomy, and political science. In 335 b.c. He started a school called the Lyceum. At this school, he taught his students the "golden mean." The mean is the middle position between tw |
Aristotle |
| A historian wrote that the gods played a role in historical events. However, he made a great effort to separate fact from fiction. |
Herodotus |
