Major philosophers across history paired with their signature idea or contribution, one thinker per card.
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- Socrates
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Pursued truth through systematic questioning and dialogue (the Socratic method)- Plato
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Theory of Forms: unchanging, perfect, abstract ideas exist beyond the material world- Aristotle
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Virtue ethics: excellence is achieved through reason and habituation, seeking the mean between extremes- Epicurus
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Simple pleasures, friendship, and modest living lead to the good life, not excessive indulgence- Zeno of Elea
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Paradoxes demonstrate that motion, change, and plurality are logically impossible or contradictory- Heraclitus
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Reality is constant flux and change, governed by logos, the universal principle of fire and transformation- Parmenides
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True being is eternal, unchanging, indivisible, and one; apparent change is illusion- Augustine
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Divine grace, not human will alone, is necessary for salvation and knowledge of God- Thomas Aquinas
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Aristotelian reason and Christian revelation both reveal truth; faith and reason are compatible- Al-Ghazali
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Reason and religious faith are compatible; mystical experience confirms Islamic theology- Maimonides
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Aristotelian philosophy and Jewish Torah both reveal the same truths about God and the world- René Descartes
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Mind and body are distinct substances; I am certain of my existence because I think (cogito ergo sum)- Baruch Spinoza
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God and nature are one infinite substance; everything exists in God and follows from necessity, not free will- Gottfried Leibniz
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Reality consists of monads, simple indivisible substances arranged by God in pre-established harmony- John Locke
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Knowledge comes entirely from sensory experience; the mind is a blank slate (tabula rasa) at birth
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