Friday, November 6, 2009

Greek Philosophers

"All men by nature are actuated with the desire of knowledge" This a quote is from the Metaphysics of Aristotle, one of the most famous books ever writen. Aristolte was a unvierly unknowage as one of the best philosophers. Aristotle was a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great from Greece. there were three great philosphers that shaped the phosophy that we know today. these three were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
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Philosophy means "love of wisdom" derive from the Greeks. Nautruly Greece would have some of the best philosophers in History. Most of the of time when one think of Greece they think of Athens. Athens is were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle came from. These philosophers would would study thing like Athens politics, laws, values, costums, and Religon.
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In the fifth century Socrates was the most influentail and interesting person in Greece. He was very well known in his time for his conversational skills and public teaching, he wrote noting. We have to learn about his knowledge from His students. Especially Plate, the thing sbout this is plato was also, a philospher and would put his own ideas into Socrates teachings. Link


Socrates's best student was an aristocratic young man named Plato. He carried on most of Socrate's teachings. He evenally had his own acdemy. Today we know a lot about Plato's teachings because unlike Sorate, Plato wrote down his teachings. "The Academy Plato opened would become in its time the most famous school in the classical world, and its most famous pupil was Aristole. source

Aristole ( google books) was a student of Plato's. He also, was anothing great philosopher from Greece."He made important contributions by systemizing deductive logic and wrote on physical subjects. His philosophy had a long-lasting influence on the development of all Western philosophical theories." In Philosophy one learns and teachs another also, adding to it. This is what made These there great men man great. they learned something and added to it. There is many things we and learn from them. source






1 comment:

  1. Nice variety of sources

    "Aristolte was a unvierly unknowage as one " ?

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