- Socrates-plato-aristotle
- Plato comes from wealthy bakground
- watched socrates execution
- believed that gods created people but they didnt control peoples lives
- he started the academy where he taught lots of things
- had the idea of hell
- had 3 classes desiring,spirited and rational
- thought rational should rule
Aristotle
- Cerca 384-322
- Moved to athens when he was 17 and stayed for 20 yrs
- became a teacher at the academy
- when plato died he left
- Met the masadonian king phillip 2
- he taught phillips son alexander the great
- went back to athens started school-Lyceum
- for class he went on walks and talked he had 2 classes
- in the morning a small priveledged class and in the afternoon the public
- its called esoteric and exoteric
- lives alone then dies a yre after alexander
- wrote lots of books some about science
- understand your position in life
- believed in geocentricity and 4 elements wind/water/fire/earth
- didnt believe evolution and thought heavy objects fall faster than light ones
- believed our souls were inside our body but htey clouldnt leave
- thought exellence could only be achieved by mature educated upper class men
Plato was educated and he didint believeed only educate people should be in government.
Aristotle believed that the spartan government was the best just like Plato and he was Platos student.
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