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Arcane Concepts of Hellenistic Thought
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  • 1. Philosophical school named for its strolling instruction
  • 2. Sect obsessed with numerical harmony and transmigration
  • 3. Platonic recollection theory—learning as memory recovery
  • 5. Wandering teachers specializing in rhetoric and relativism
  • 6. Rational principle governing cosmos and discourse
  • 7. Atomist who posited void and indivisible corpuscles
  • 9. State of puzzlement used by Socrates as a dialectic tool
  • 11. Creator figure organizing chaos in Platonic cosmology
  • 12. Paradoxes formulated to challenge notions of plurality and motion
  • 14. Peripatetic polymath underpinning metaphysics and virtue ethics
  • 17. Cryptic or enigmatic, much like ancient philosophical riddles
  • 19. Combining disparate philosophical doctrines into a cohesive whole
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  • 4. Ancient term for intellectual intuition or mind’s eye
  • 8. Biblical figure whose reflections influenced ancient philosophical thought
  • 10. Philosopher declaring everything flows and conflict is unity
  • 13. Aristotle’s term for flourishing or highest human good
  • 15. Doctrine urging apatheia amid the vicissitudes of life
  • 16. Philosophy advocating ataraxia through modest pleasures
  • 18. Theory positing eternal forms beyond sensory perception
  • 20. Aristotelian notion of intrinsic purpose or final cause

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