For nearly 2,600 years, the preeminent philosophy in Western Civilization employed to "create- order in the world has been "Dualism,"" which is directly traceable to the 6th century B.C. ... Many predominant modern philosophies in Western civilization are directly traceable to Zoroastrianism through (1) the Greek philosophers Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno, (2) the Roman Stoics, (3) the Manicheans and Saint Augustine of Hippo in the Third Century A.D., (4) the Albigensians of Southern France and Spain in the early Middle Ages, (5) the Italian scholastic philosopher Thomas Aquinas in the 13th cent...

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The Romans and Greece had many similarities, mainly because the Romans, a war society, who would adapt a lot of culture from the Greeks, and would even appoint Greeks into the Roman Political System. ... With minds like Aristotle and Alexander the Great, Greece would use its government to expand its intelligential ideas of economy and wealth. ... Social class was tied to wealth and not so political control, unless you were to have real clout. ... With people such as Homer, Plato, Sacrates, Aristotle, and many other people, Greece was able to evolve through knowledge. Philosophy, Science, L...

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The things that still influence life are art, politics, government, architecture, and science. ... All citizens have the right to vote, but women and slaves have no political rights. ... The higher education of the children consisted of the study of law, medicine, philosophy, or rhetoric. ... The Greeks achieved government, science, and philosophy. ... The most important philosophers were Socrates, Pluto, and Aristotle. ...

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