Philosophers- Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Today in class we learned about the philosophers of Greece.
Socrates
-looked to science and logic (not the mythological gods) for explanations of how the world worked ---the Socratic Method fostered critical thinking
-“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
-Socrates was charged with serious crimes
-impiety (disrespecting the gods)
-corrupting the youth of Athens
-at his trial, he described himself as a stinging gadfly, and Athens as a lazy old horse
-did not deny what he had done; asked for free dinners
-found guilty by an Athenian jury, and sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock (nasty way to go)

Plato

-Plato was a student and follower of Socrates
-he wrote out Socrates’ teachings, and described his trial in Apology
-Republic was Socrates’ discussion of justice and the ideal state - one of the most influential books on -philosophy ever written

Aristotle
    -Aristotle was a student of Plato
      -he helped foster the idea of Athens as an intellectual destination
        -his school - the Lyceum - focused on cooperative research - building on knowledge gathered from all over the world
        Aristotle and Internet
        -not exactly, but he did dream of having the sum of mankind’s knowledge easily accessed in one location
        -he wrote extensively on such topics as…
        logic -- physics -- biology 
        ethics -- politics -- rhetoric
        motion -- theatre -- poetry
        metaphysics -- psychology -- dreams… and on and on...
        -he also tutored Alexander the Great

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