WORLD HISTORY

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ANCIENT GREECE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Greek philosopher and student of Plato. He taught that people should live lives of moderation and use reason in their lives. He tutored Alexander the Great.
A
Socrates
B
Aristotle
C
Pythagoras
D
Plato
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Aristotle believed that moderation was based on reason, or clear and ordered thinking. He thought that people should use reason to govern their lives. In other words, people should think about their actions and how they will affect others.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aristotle (384–322 B.C.) When Aristotle grew up, he studied philosophy at Plato’s Academy for 20 years, leaving when Plato died. He traveled and then tutored the king of Macedon’s 13-year-old son, Alexander (the future Alexander the Great).

Detailed explanation-3: -Plato is one of the world’s best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and he wrote in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. in ancient Greece.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, who made important contributions to logic, criticism, rhetoric, physics, biology, psychology, mathematics, metaphysics, ethics, and politics. He was a student of Plato for twenty years but is famous for rejecting Plato’s theory of forms.

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