Today we took notes on the philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
Socrates
Socrates
- looked to science and logic (not Greek mythology) to explain how the world works
- the Socratic method fostered critical thinking
- "The unexamined life is not worth living"
- Socrates was charged with serious crimes
- impiety
- corruption of Athens youth
- at his trial, he described himself as a gadfly and Athens as a lazy horse
- sentenced to death by drinking poisoned hemlock
- 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
- a student of Plato
- fostered the idea of Athens as an intellectual
- Started a school called the Lyceum for philosophy
- wrote on logic, physics, biology, ethics, politics, rhetoric, motion, theatre, poetry, metaphysics, psychology, and dreams
- tutored Alexader the Great
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