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1. Socrates had 3 main students who helped shaped the main movements of philosophy, varying from logic to hedonism. Which of the following were not part of this triad?
2. Epicurus was generally construed as a pleasure-seeker, although he pursued virtue and the middle-way as the solution to pain and pleasure; inner tranquility then resulted after reaching balance. What is the term for this state of mind?
3. Who was the philosopher regarded as the 'Socrates gone mad'?
4. Seneca asserted that death was the only form of human liberty. One of his contemporary, was known as the 'Orator of Death', because he preached suicide. After a string of suicides in Rome, he was banned from the city limits. Who was he?
5. He was the first Sceptic philosopher of Greece, accompanying Alexander the Great into India, where he exchanged his ideas on Scepticism with a group of Gymnosophists there. Who was he?
6. What Emperor closed all the schools of Philosophy in Athens ca. AD 529?
7. Which of the early Greek philosophers described natural selection, in a similar vein to Charles Darwin?
8. With phrases like these- 'Death is all things we see awake; all we see asleep is sleep' and 'Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game'...he was known as the 'Riddler'. Who was he?
9. 150 lines from his famous 'Way of Truth' describe reality as unchanging and eternal...who was he?
10. Who was the inventor of Dialectics?
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