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The Legacy of Socrates Timeline Game

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Summoning Knowledge...

About This Challenge

Explore the legacy of Socrates through this engaging timeline game that challenges players to place events in their correct chronological order.

  • Test your knowledge of key moments in the life of Socrates
  • Learn about the impact of Socrates’ philosophy on Western thought
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  • 470 BCE: Socrates is born in Athens
  • 450 BCE: Socrates begins his career as a philosopher
  • 440 BCE: Socrates becomes known for his method of questioning
  • 399 BCE: Socrates is accused of corrupting the youth and impiety
  • 399 BCE: Socrates is sentenced to death and drinks poison hemlock
  • 387 BCE: Plato, a student of Socrates, founds the Academy in Athens
  • 380 BCE: Plato writes dialogues featuring Socrates as the main character
  • 335 BCE: Aristotle, a student of Plato, founds the Lyceum in Athens
  • 335-322 BCE: Aristotle's works on logic, ethics, and metaphysics influence Western philosophy
  • 3rd century BCE: Hellenistic philosophers like Epicurus and Zeno of Citium adapt Socratic ideas
  • 3rd century CE: Neoplatonism, a philosophical system influenced by Plato, emerges in the 3rd century CE
  • 13th century CE: Medieval philosophers like Thomas Aquinas incorporate Aristotelian and Neoplatonic ideas
  • 14th-17th century CE: Renaissance humanists revive interest in ancient Greek philosophy, including Socrates
  • 18th century CE: Enlightenment thinkers like Immanuel Kant and John Locke engage with Socratic ideas
  • 20th century CE: Existentialist philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir draw on Socratic themes
  • 21st century CE: Socratic method continues to be used in education and philosophy seminars worldwide

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