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This thinker, forced to drink hemlock in 399 BCE, never wrote down his teachings but influenced Western thought through his famous student's dialogues.
Difficulty: Easy- Anaximander
- Pythagoras
- Socrates
- Thales
This problem from a dialogue on piety asks whether the gods love what is holy because it is holy, or whether holiness is simply whatever the gods happen to love.
Difficulty: Medium- Trolley problem
- Euthyphro dilemma
- Prisoner's dilemma
- Buridan's ass
This Peripatetic philosopher succeeded his teacher as head of the Lyceum, expanded botanical studies, and modified Aristotelian psychology regarding the active intellect.
Difficulty: Hard- Eudemus
- Strato
- Dicaearchus
- Theophrastus
The Academy, often called the first university in the Western world, was founded in Athens around 387 BCE by this student of a famous executed philosopher.
Difficulty: Easy- Plato
- Xenophon
- Aristotle
- Antisthenes
This distinction divides the soul into reason, spirit, and appetite—each with its proper function and virtue—paralleling the structure of an ideal city-state.
Difficulty: Medium- Hylomorphic soul
- Monistic soul
- Dualistic soul
- Tripartite soul
This Pyrrhonist compiled the "ten modes"—systematic strategies for generating opposing arguments on any topic to induce suspension of judgment.
Difficulty: Hard- Sextus Empiricus
- Aenesidemus
- Agrippa
- Timon of Phlius
This philosopher tutored Alexander the Great and later founded his own school called the Lyceum in Athens.
Difficulty: Easy- Isocrates
- Aristotle
- Speusippus
- Plato
This doctrine holds that virtue is the only true good, vice the only evil, and everything else—health, wealth, even death—is morally indifferent.
Difficulty: Medium- Epicurean ethics
- Cyrenaic ethics
- Stoic ethics
- Aristotelian ethics
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