ECONOMICS Study Guide - final Guide: Plotinus, Antisthenes, Empirical Evidence
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Study guide on history of economic thoughts - a timeline of historical modeling developments of knowledge. Gorgias (483-378 bc): he stated that knowledge does not exit nor can be communicated if existed, because of its subjectivity. Heraclitus (535-475 bc): maintained that wisdom is not the knowledge of many things; it is clear knowledge of one thing only. Perfect knowledge is only given to the gods, but a progress in knowledge is possible for "men. " Empedocles (c. 450 bc): he distinguished between the world as presented to our senses and the intellectual world. Antisthenes (440-370 bc): maintained that happiness is a branch of knowledge that could be taught, and once acquired cannot be lost. Euclid (430-360 bc): maintained that knowledge is virtue. If knowledge is virtue, it can only be the knowledge of the ultimate being. Protagoras (485-415 bc): maintained that knowledge is relative since it is based on individual experiences. Plato (427-322bc): he was one of socrates students.
