Philosophers Notes

In Wednesday's class, we began to take notes on the philosophers that were in Greece throughout history. Here's what we took notes on so far...

Socrates:
- Looked to science and logic (not the mythological gods) for explanations of how the world worked
- The Socratic Method fostered critical thinking
More Socrates:
- "The unexamined life is not worth living"
- Socrates was charged w/ serious crimes
- Impiety (disrespecting the gods)
- Corrupting the youth of Athens
- At his trial, he described himself as a singing 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)

Plate carries on:
- 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- so ambitious...
- 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

Did Aristotle invent the 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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