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Examining Beliefs and Values Timeline Game

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About This Challenge

Exploring beliefs and values can be a fascinating journey, and one way to do so is through a timeline game that challenges players to place events in their correct chronological order. This game can provide insight into how different beliefs and values have evolved over time.

  • Players are presented with a series of events related to various beliefs and values
  • They must then arrange these events in the order in which they occurred
  • This game can help players understand the historical context in which certain beliefs and values developed
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  • 399 BCE: Socrates sentenced to death for corrupting the youth and impiety
  • 387 BCE: Plato founds the Academy in Athens
  • 335 BCE: Aristotle establishes the Lyceum in Athens
  • 3rd century BCE: Stoicism founded by Zeno of Citium
  • 3rd century BCE: Epicureanism founded by Epicurus
  • 386 CE: Augustine of Hippo converts to Christianity
  • 1078 CE: Anselm of Canterbury proposes the Ontological Argument for the existence of God
  • 13th century CE: Thomas Aquinas synthesizes Christian theology with Aristotelian philosophy
  • 1641 CE: Rene Descartes publishes 'Meditations on First Philosophy'
  • 1781 CE: Immanuel Kant publishes 'Critique of Pure Reason'
  • 1882 CE: Friedrich Nietzsche declares 'God is dead'
  • 20th century CE: Existentialism emerges as a philosophical movement
  • 1963 CE: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers 'I Have a Dream' speech
  • 1971 CE: John Rawls publishes 'A Theory of Justice'
  • 1980s CE: Martha Nussbaum advocates for capabilities approach in ethics
  • 2012 CE: Alain de Botton publishes 'Religion for Atheists'
  • 2015 CE: Pope Francis delivers encyclical 'Laudato Si' on care for our common home
  • 2010 CE: Rebecca Goldstein explores the intersection of philosophy and religion in '36 Arguments for the Existence of God'
  • 2014 CE: Yuval Noah Harari examines the future of humanity in 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind'
  • 2019 CE: Greta Thunberg advocates for climate action at United Nations Climate Action Summit

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