What is some keys words about Ancient Greece?

Answer 1

• Absolute The opposite of relative, conditioned or dependent. The idea of the Absolute dates back to pre-Socratic times. For Plato, the Ideal Forms were the Absolute. For other philosophers the idea has been associated with that of the Godhead.

  Certain rationalist thinkers, such as Spinoza, held the Absolute to be an all-encompassing principle and the true source of all reality, as did the idealist philosophers, most notably Hegel.

• A Priori Something known to be true or false prior to experience. Its opposite would be a posteriori, which is knowledge derived from experience.
• Aesthetics The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and expression of beauty, or in Kantian philosophy the branch of metaphysics concerned with the laws of perception.
• Agent The self that acts, chooses, and decides as opposed to the self that knows.
• Agnostic One who believes that God's existence cannot be proven, but doesn't deny the possibility that God might exist.
• Agnosticism The belief that no proof can be given for the existence of God since the concept of God like those of soul, immortality, and first cause lises beyond the reach of the human mind, which can only know the world of natural phenomena.
• Atheism The absolute belief in and denial a=of the existence of a God or Gods.
• Atomism The Theory of Democritus and Epicurus, among other, which claims that the entire universe is composed of minute, indivisible and indestructible particles.
• Cynic A member of a school of Ancient Greek philosophy, namely Cynicism, wherein virtue was seen as the only good and selfcontrol as the only means of attaining virtue. Cynics not only showed a complete disregard for pleasure, but also expressed contempt for human affection, preferring to find fault with most individuals for their lack of virtue. Diogenes was perhaps the most renowned Cynic.
• Dialetic A greek Term originally used to describe the Socratic method, according to which argument and reasoning took the form of dialogue.
• Epicureanism Named after the Greek Philosopher Epicurus, this strain of moral philosophy advances the claim that pleasure mainly understood as the avoidance of pain by opting for intellectual pleasure, needs to be understood as the basis for leading an ethical life.
• Pantheism The doctorine that identifies Gods or gods with the forces and workings of nature.
• Presocratic Of the time before Socrates.
• Stoicism The Greek school of Philosopy founded by Zeno of Citium around 308 BC. The Stoics believed that happiness lay in accepting the law of the universeand advised equanimity in the face of good and bad fortune alike. They held that human beings would be happiest of they freed themselves from passion and calmy accepted all occurences as the result of divine will.
• Theism Most specifically the belief that a single God is present in the world as well as transcendent.