HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Ignore their fellow man’s responsibility.
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Describe why the Greek gods were to be worshipped.
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Study and analyze the world around them using logic and reason.
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Help the Greek people make good decisions in daily life.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.), while also interested in ethics, studied different sciences like physics, biology, and astronomy. He is often credited with developing the study of logic, as well as the foundation for modern-day zoology.
Detailed explanation-2: -As the father of western logic, Aristotle was the first to develop a formal system for reasoning. He observed that the deductive validity of any argument can be determined by its structure rather than its content, for example, in the syllogism: All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thales. The earliest person who is cited by ancient sources as a philosopher is Thales, who lived in the city of Miletus in Asia Minor around the late 7th or early 6th century BCE.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Greeks were applying mathematics to theorize about the nature of their world. They held a range of beliefs about nature and the world but they were, in many cases, working to ground those beliefs in an empirical exploration of what they could reason from evidence.