Phiilsophers

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

1. Impiety (disrespect of gods)
2. Corruption of Athens' youth

• at his trial, he described himself as the gadfly to the lazy horse that is Athens
• did not deny what he had done; asked for free dinners
• found guilty by an Athenian jury, and sentenced by drinking poison hemlock (nasty way to go)

Plato

• was a follower/student of Socrates
• he wrote out Socrates' teaching and described his trial in "Apology"
• Republic was Socrates' discussion of the justice and the ideal state- one of the most influential book on philosophy ever written

Aristotle

• student of Plato
• he helped foster the idea of Athens of an intellectual destination
• his school- the Lyciem- focused on cooperative research- building on knowledge gathered from all over the world

Did Aristotle invent the internet?

• not exactly but he dreamed of having the sum of mankind's easily accessed in one location

He wrote extensively on such topics as: 

•   logic--physics--biology
• ethics--politics--rhetoric
• motion--theatre-poetry
• metaphysics--psychology--dream etc.

He also tutored Alexander the Great