Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each figure to what he is remembered for.
- Diogenes
- Aristippus
- Euclides of Megara
- Plato
- Joining Socratic ethics to Eleatic logic
- Living in a jar and flouting convention publicly
- Holding that immediate pleasure is the good
- The theory of Forms and the divided line
Hints
- Each founded or represents one of the schools claiming Socrates.
- One of them transformed the inheritance rather than merely extending it.
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- Diogenes → Living in a jar and flouting convention publicly
- Aristippus → Holding that immediate pleasure is the good
- Euclides of Megara → Joining Socratic ethics to Eleatic logic
- Plato → The theory of Forms and the divided line
Why
Three extend one strand of Socrates each; Plato transforms the whole inheritance by adding a metaphysics the elenchus itself never had. That difference is why one school became the tradition and the others became footnotes.
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