Who was the greatest of all Greek painters?
Parrhasius
What do you think is the most famous Greek art?
The top 10 ancient Greek artworks
- The Riace bronzes (460-420BC)
- Goddesses from the east pediment of the Parthenon (c 438-432BC)
- Marble metope from the Parthenon (c 447-438BC)
- God from the sea, Zeus or Poseidon (c 470BC)
- The Siren vase (480-470BC)
- The Motya charioteer (c 350BC)
- The Dionysus Cup by Exekias (c 540BC)
- Mask of Agamemnon (1550-1500BC)
Is there a difference between opinion and belief?
An opinion is a judgment based on facts, an honest attempt to draw a reasonable conclusion from factual evidence. Unlike an opinion, a belief is a conviction based on cultural or personal faith, morality, or values.
Which philosopher was most interested in studying the natural world?
Aristotle’s
What is the important element that Plato used in his philosophy?
Like most other ancient philosophers, Plato maintains a virtue-based eudaemonistic conception of ethics. That is to say, happiness or well-being (eudaimonia) is the highest aim of moral thought and conduct, and the virtues (aretê: ‘excellence’) are the requisite skills and dispositions needed to attain it.
Who was the most influential philosopher of that time?
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
- Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
- Confucius (551–479 BCE)
- René Descartes (1596–1650)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 82)
- Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
- David Hume (1711–77)
- Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Can an opinion be valid?
To be held valid (and warranted) an opinion must be upheld by facts, and/or laws and arguments. You can overturn his opinion by presenting new facts into evidence and clarifying your argument about how the evidence leads one to the conclusion (your opinion).
Was Plato a rationalist or an empiricist?
Plato is a rationalist because he thinks that we have innate knowledge of the Forms [mathematical objects and concepts (triangles, equality, largeness), moral concepts (goodness, beauty, virtue, piety), and possibly color – he doesn’t ever explicitly state that there are Forms of colors]; Descartes thinks that the idea …