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Empiricists are the complete opposite of the rationalism

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"The mind is a blank piece of paper

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"Ignorance is the only evil"

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"There is something marvelous in all natural things"

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"Is there a perfect world?"

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He was born on 1632 and died in 1704

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Aristotle was born in 384 and in 322 bc

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Socrates was born in 469 and died in 399 bc

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Plato was born in 428 and died in 354 bc

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Empiricists believe that true knowledge of the world is obtained through the senses, not by reason

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Locke's friend Isaac Newton discovered gravity

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Locke's the only philosopher to have become a minister of government

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Locke studied medicine part-time and got well qualified.

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He believed that people were equal because nature made them to be free, but he was in charge of England's lucrative slave trade.

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Plato taught Aristotle

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Locke was Shaftesbury's secretary and doctor

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Plato wrote down his ideas as conversations

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These philosophers argue that we have ideas only because we have perceptions

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When an abscessed liver threatened to kill Shaftesbury Locke drained it with a silver tap and Shaftesbury weared it for the rest of his life

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Aristotle taught Alexander the great

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Socrates was Plato's teacher

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Socrates believed that happiness came from leading a good life

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Socrates fought in Athens' wars with Sparta

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He will send romantic letters to his lady friends but he never got married

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Locke lived through a civil war caused by the kings belief in a god given right to rule, the king was killed

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All there knowledge is based on experience

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they said that the mind at birth is a tabula rasa (a.k.a. a blank slate)

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Socrates saw himself as a horsefly stinging Athens to life

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Socrates listened to an inner voice which stopped him from doing things for selfish reasons

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Socrates listened to an inner voice which stopped him from doing things for selfish reasons

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Socrates was the wisest man in Athens

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Socrates' wife was annoyed because he didn't teach for money

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His words were recorded by Plato, his most famous pupil

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He believed in an eternal soul that came from the ideal world

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Plato said that men and women have the same intellectual powers and they should receive the same education

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Plato said that the Earth is just a world of fleeting shadows

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Plato's ideal society would be ruled by philosophers

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Plato believed in an unseen world where there existed the perfect models of all things on the Earth

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Plato's students studied science, gymnastics, and philosophy

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Aristotle found that he could sort everything on Earth into animal, vegetable, and mineral

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Aristotle identified 500 different species of sea life

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Aristotle identified 500 different species of sea life

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Aristotle liked to talk and walk as he taught his students

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Aristotle saw that every acorn has the potential to grow into an oak tree

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Aristotle saw that every acorn has the potential to grow into an oak tree

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Aristotle branded women second-class citizens, unfit for any legal rights

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After Plato's death Aristotle opened his own school called the Lyceum

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Aristotle made an error of pigeonholing women as "unfinished men," he had no such thing as microbiology to prove it, he said only men carried human "seed."