... of our economy which was once introduced by the Greek people and our trading methods are still the same. The term, philosophy, was invented by the Greek people like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Thucydides, Herodotus and Pythagoras. Philosophy means "love of wisdom". These people were called philosophers, which mean "lovers of knowledge" in Greek. Greeks started questioning about the world around ... & Aristophanes wrote plays that are famous even today. These plays were performed in the theatre. There were great developments in the field of mathematics and medicine. Philosoph...

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... dialectic, was based on Socrates" question and answer method of arriving at some important truth. Socrates left no writings, but his ideas are preserved in writings of other Greeks, especially Plato. Aristotle also wrote important works, including Poetics, a masterpiece of literary criticism. The government of ancient Greece was also very complex and it set the stage for the way many of ... ...

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... copies, number at least 350, and it is known that others have been lost or destroyed. Most of these were actually posted; a few, such as his rhetorical letters to Cicero, Plato, and Seneca, were never intended to be, but were simply written as a statement of Petrarch's philosophy in the context of the addressee's. Many of his letters are not philosophical at ... ...

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... a republic grants the power to a select group chosen to represent the people. In a democracy the "majority rules" - and the minority loses. This system is subject to abuse however, because as Plato said "A democracy is a state in which the poor gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally." This is to ... ...

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... a Greek philosopher, although many consider him to be more of a scientist and logician due to his contributions in the fields of logic, physics, biology, and humanities. He was a pupil of Plato but disagreed with most of his ideas and tutored Alexander the Great for years. Until the 17th century, most of the science in the Western world was based on his ... ...

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