Greek Thinkers 2.0 Plato & Aristotle

The philosopher Plato founded a school in Athens called...

• The Gymnasium

• The Dojo

• The Academy

• The University

Plato wrote a dialog about government called The Republic. He didn't like democracy because the people lacked wisdom. Instead he wanted...

• A Wise Old Emperor

• Rule by Artificial Intelligence

• Oligarchy: government by the rich

• A Philosopher King

In most of Plato's Dialogs, the main character whose ideas are Plato's focus is...

• Dionysus

• Euripedes

• Socrates

• Pericles

Aristotle taught his students to take the middle position between extremes, called the Golden...

• Calf

• Staff

• Rule

• Mean

Aristotle studied natural phenomena, and classified things into categories: mammals, fish, insects, reptiles, etc. This classification is called...

• taxonomy

• taxidermy

• taxicab

• income tax

Aristotle classified everything, including types of government. He said there were three types: Government by one: Monarchy - Government by a few: Oligarchy - and Government by the many: ______________

• autocracy

• plebecite

• democracy

• timocracy

Aristotle was hired by Philip II of Macedonia to...

• clean the Augean Stables

• start Harvard University

• tutor his son Alexander

• design a new form of government