Western Civilization
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- Cuneiform
- one of the first types of writting
- Hammurabi
- Famous Babylonian created "eye for an eye" law codes
- Ephors
- smallest ruling group that makes most rules
- Draco
- Athenian statesmen commissioned to codify the law. Wrote first Homicide laws.
- why did Philosophy develop in Greece?
- 1. People became skeptical 2. they were searching for order 3. were going through changes
- Protagoras
- believed "man is the measure" -cannot find real truth -man's rules are arbirtrary
- Socrates
- -Moral absolutes and ethics -"what is right action"? -The unexamined ife is not worth living" -lead people to the truth not told them
- Plato
- --"how can we know what is right?" =must go beyond the visible evidence -opposed to democracy -wrote The Republic
- Aristotle
- -Nature does nothing by accident -favored a moderate democracy -gov't exsisted for the good of the people
- Epicurus
- -we should worry about living pleasurable lives without guilt
- Herodotus
- -father of history -wrote about the persian war -tried to explain why things happened
- thucydides
- wrote about the peloponysian war -used evidence/ wanted to be accurate