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430 BCE
Oedipus Rex
Aristotle said that arts started because of the necesity of humans to imitate life and that the tragedies are the imitation of situations which give us a learning. Aristotle considered the tragedy "Oedipus Rex" as the best tragedy ever. This tragedy was written by Sophocles. -
424 BCE
Plato
He made the "allegory of the cave" which compare "the effect of education and the lack of it on our nature" -
384 BCE
Aristotle
He wrote "Nichomachean Ethics" which was one of the first books about Ethics. He separated Intellectual virtues from Moral virtues. Aristotle is considered as a materiallist philosopher. He defined morality as the study of right and wrong. -
4 BCE
Seneca
You can achieve happiness having suffering. Putting stop to your passions -
1 BCE
Year 1
When Jesus Crist was born -
354
St. Augustine
After a life of sin, St. Augustine decided to become a better man, so he looked for God. He said we can base our desicions in God. -
Mar 7, 1225
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Your actions depend in what you are: if you are a bad person you will do bad actions. -
Kant
Kant supposed, only rational beings do so consciously, in obedience to the objective principles determined by practical reason. Of course, human agents also have subjective impulses—desires and inclinations that may contradict the dictates of reason. So we experience the claim of reason as an obligation, a command that we act in a particular way, or an imperative. Such imperatives may occur in either of two distinct forms, hypothetical or categorical. -
John Stuart Mill
Mill's major contribution to utilitarianism is his argument for the qualitative separation of pleasures. Mill argues that intellectual and moral pleasures (higher pleasures) are superior to more physical forms of pleasure (lower pleasures). Mill distinguishes between happiness and contentment, claiming that the former is of higher value than the latter. -
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was the first one to establish a relationship between development of a species and others species. He also said that since we are born we face challenges, so when we study the species we are also studying conflicts. -
Mexico's Independence
The trigarant army entry to the Mexico City finishing with the war of Independence and making it free from Spain -
Sigmund Freud
The father of psychoanalysis. He said that humans are driven by unconscious desires -
Rene Descartes
Is considered the father of the new philosophy. He said "I think, therefore I exist" as the base of the racionalism. He also created a method to solve problems called Discourse of the Method in which you divide a big problem into small parts and then you solve them. -
Abraham Maslow
The most representative author that talked about needs. -
Claude Lèvi-Strauss
Was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. -
Jack Kevorkian
One of the first doctors who offered the practice of the euthanasia. He removed the suffering of 400 people in the United States.
More information: https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian#Biograf.C3.ADa -
Donald Trump is elected as president.
Donald Trump is the official elected president of the United States. I think that this is an ethical decision because of the lot of things that Donald Trump has said in his campaign.
