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The Four Cardinal Virtues Timeline Game

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About This Challenge

The timeline game is a fun and engaging way to learn about historical events while also testing your knowledge of the Four Cardinal Virtues – prudence, justice, temperance, and courage.

  • Players must strategically place events in their correct chronological order to progress through the game.
  • By making decisions based on the virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and courage, players can earn points and advance in the game.
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  • c. 380 BCE: Plato introduces the concept of the four cardinal virtues in his work 'Republic'
  • c. 350 BCE: Aristotle expands on the concept of the four cardinal virtues in his work 'Nicomachean Ethics'
  • 1st century CE: Stoic philosophers such as Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius discuss the importance of the four cardinal virtues in their works
  • 4th-13th century CE: Christian theologians such as St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas incorporate the four cardinal virtues into Christian ethics
  • 13th-14th century CE: The concept of the four cardinal virtues is further developed by medieval philosophers such as Albertus Magnus and William of Ockham
  • 14th-16th century CE: Renaissance humanists like Petrarch and Erasmus emphasize the importance of the four cardinal virtues in education and moral development
  • 17th-18th century CE: Enlightenment thinkers like Immanuel Kant and John Locke discuss the role of the four cardinal virtues in moral philosophy
  • 19th century CE: 19th-century philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and John Stuart Mill critique and reinterpret the four cardinal virtues in light of modernity
  • 20th century CE: 20th-century existentialists like Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir explore the concept of the four cardinal virtues in relation to freedom and authenticity
  • 21st century CE: Contemporary philosophers continue to debate and analyze the relevance of the four cardinal virtues in the context of globalization and technological advancements

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