Western Civ

Today in class we finished the slide show and you told us about the new project.
Philosophers- Socrates
looked to science and logic (not the mythological Gods). or explanations of how the world works.  The socratic method fostered critical thinking.  "The unexamined life into worth the living".  Socrates was charged with serious crime.  Disrespecting the Gods and corrupting the youth .  Didn't deny what he had did, asked for free meals for life instead.  He said he was a stinging gad fly and Athens was a lazy horse.  Sentences to death by poison hemlock.

Plato wrote the apologia.  Plato was a student and follower of socrates.  Wrote teaching and describes the trial in Apology.  Republic was most influenced book of philosophy.

Aristotle- So ambitious
Student of a Plato.  Helped foster the idea of Athens intellectual...  His school was Lyceum.  Knowledge gathered.  
Did Aristotle invented the internet?
No but he did want  place where everyone one could go to get all the answers they needed.  He also tutored Alexander the Great.

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