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Hi! I will not be in school today as a precautionary measure duo to some recent illnesses in Maryland.

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 (it includes the Allegory of the Cave!)
Aristotle
  • Aristotle was a student of Plato at the Academy
  • 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 
  • 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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