CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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Helping others to be happy and comfortable
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Using the human mind to think and understand
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Encouraging people to worship the gods
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Understanding how the human body works
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Detailed explanation-1: -Socrates believed that knowledge was the ultimate good and that pursuing knowledge was vital to living a good, virtuous life. Socrates argued that good and evil were absolute and that only through pursuing knowledge can we learn the difference.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BC) was a materialist ancient Greek philosopher who offered that the meaning of life was in achieving sustainable pleasure which leads to a state of tranquility and freedom from fear (ataraxia).
Detailed explanation-3: -Philosophy was used to make sense of the world using reason. It dealt with a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy, epistemology, mathematics, political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, ontology, logic, biology, rhetoric and aesthetics.