Question by Sergio M: Is ancient philosophy interesting?
I’m a biology major who wants to take some philosophy classes as upper-level electives. There are 3 main history of western philosophy courses:

Classics of Ancient Western Philosophy
Course Description: Ancient Greek philosophy focusing particularly on works of Plato and Aristotle.

Classics of Modern Western Philosophy
Course Description: Philosophers from the “modern period” of philosophy focusing on those writing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, and Kant.

Nineteenth-Century Western Philosophy
Course Description: Works of major nineteenth-century philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Mill, Frege, and Nietzsche.

I’d like to take all three before graduating if I can just to have a well rounded knowledge of the topic. I don’t have to take them in any order, but I’m wondering if it would be of any help to take ancient philosophy first to better understand the later guys, or are they more stand-alone? Also, like it says in the title, I’m wonder how interesting ancient philosophy is compared to other eras. One concern I have as a fan of science is that, back then, humans knew fuck all about anything. So I also want to know if/how relevant Plato and Aristotle are to modern philosophy.

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Answer by Mono
Well Aristotle might be slightly boring, especially concerning his Nicomachean Ethics, because he is the main base for Western ethics in general and you’ll probably feel like you know everything he’s telling you. Except you know, about women and slaves being inferior. But Plato is pretty awesome. I’d go for Ancient before doing the others.

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Question by prettykitty: What ancient religion or philosophy is this?
My friend was talking about some religion or philosophy that was supposed to be the oldest or something. All I really remember was that it had kind of a long name and sounded like it was two words….
I was gonna look it up once I got home but I don’t remember!!!!

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Answer by neil s
The oldest scriptural tradition in the world is the Vedas, and the oldest philosophical tradition is in India.

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Question by ♠MC.Sniper: about the Ancient Rome and Early Christianity?
in world history class
Ancient Rome and Early Christianity

1. How do the institutions of religion, government, and the economy shape the development of Rome?

2.How did ancient civilization (Rome/Greece) interact with each other?

3.How did imperial structures affect the society of Rome?

4. How did the rule of law evolve throughout the rise and fall of ancient Rome?

5. How is the treatment of conquered people and peasants related to the progression of governmental institutions?

6. Why did ancient Rome fall?

7. How did Roman culture develop?

8. How did the Romans influence the modern world?

9. How did the ancient philosophers influence the development of the modern world?

help me with these questions also tell me the good sites i can go to
i will give you 5 stars

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Answer by Steve C
Does it help if we do your homework for you? Doesn’t that defeat the reason for assigning the homework in the first place?

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Question by Anonymous: Ancient Greece Philosophers?
How did Ancient Greek Philosophers (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle) influenced the modern world we live today?

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Answer by Julia
check this link – http://www.livius.org/gi-gr/greeks/philosophers.html

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Question by ♠MC.Sniper: Question about ancient Greece in world history?
these are some question about ancient Greece.

1. How was the treatment of peasants and foreigners relate to the progression of government?

2. How did Greek culture develop?

3. How did the Greek culture influence the modern world?

4.How did Greek philosophers affect the modern world?

these are the 4 question about greece plz help me. i’ll give you highest point if you do all this questions.

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Answer by epublius76
Your questions are too big to even begin to answer in this format. Go to the link to Ancient Greece I have given below. I’m sure you can find all the answers there.

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Question by Ally, THAT girl: How do the achievements of ancient Greeks impact us/you today?
Personally, I feel without their philosophers, we may not have modern science/philosophy today. But, other than that, what do you personally feel Greeks have brought to you? Art, Theater, music?

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Answer by Smotyn
I feel the biggest impact is the idea of cities.

The Greeks were arguably the first to congregate in areas in the masses, to build themselves into a city so that they could spend their time developing ideas and improving the race rather than trying to spend all their time surviving.

The Greeks saw cities as an escape from the wild and this allowed development within the human species.

I would say that this is perhaps the biggest impact of the ancient Greeks as it directly effects the modern world.

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Question by Luís Santos: Was ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY superior to Modern Philosophy?
Do you think that ancient philosophers were wiser?

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Answer by I try
Maybe in their thought patterns, but we have allot more knowledge to work with now, then what they had back then…

They had their examples, but we have new ones, and the old ones…the more we know, the more we have to work with.

so as the ancient philosophers might say…define superior?

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Question by I am the most—-gretest sinner!: Who is the best philosopher of the ancient time, and who is the most comparative philosopher in modern time?

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Answer by Telis
Plato (Ancient Greek). Me (Modern Greek).

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Question by c.linic_al: Do ancient philosophers’ theories of knowledge still influence us today?
For example, Plato’s ‘Ideas’ and his Allegory of the Cave – does it in any way resonate in our modern lives?

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Answer by joe carpenter
Yes, absolutely, of course they do. People have not changed.

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