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| Word | Clue |
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| 8 letters | His namesake school, Epicureanism, believed that pleasure was the highest (or only) good, and that the absence of pain (aponia) was the highest pleasure. |
| 8 letters | Proclaiming his own ignorance of all things, he went around Athens engaging in Q&A sessions to search for truths or draw out contradictions. The Socratic Method |
| 8 letters | The Cynics rejected conventional social norms in search of a truly virtuous life. |
| 9 letters | His philosophical output includes the Nicomachean Ethics, which argues that virtues consist in a “golden mean” between 2 extremes. |
| 6 letters | He described the ideal state in such dialogues as On the Republic and On the Laws, while he discussed Epicurean and Stoic views on religion in On the Nature of the Gods. |
| 5 letters | Believed in a world of “forms”—or ideal versions of real things that lie beyond the human senses—which he discussed in such works as the Phaedo. |
| 6 letters | Also a civil engineer and mathematician, he is credited with discovering that any triangle whose hypotenuse is the diameter of a circle must be a right triangle. |
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