Today we are doing some more presentations on our projects.
- Plato, Socrates, and Aerostatle
- Plato contributed science, math
- Plato was the son of a very wealthy and influential parents
- Born 427 B.C died 347 B.C.
- Was taught by socrates
- began career as a writer of tradgedies
- founded the academy of Athens
- Socrates saved the life of Alcibades
- taught his students to use their rational understanding to rediscover knowlege they already had
- Born 469 B.C. died 399 B.C.
- was born to the son of a stonesman and spent all of his time in Athens maintaining the family busisness
- wife was Xanthippe
- was accused of sacrilege and corrupting the youth of Athens
- spent 1 month on the death row
- Aristotle started the study of logic and came up with four causes that contribute to the movement of entelechy
- showed great insight in moral philosophy
- started his own school, taught alexander the great, and started mathmatical logic
- known as the father of biology because he was the first person to classify organisms as either plants or animals
- believed the earth is round, smaller than the stars,and that the earth is unlike heavenly bodies, is at rest
- proposed a 5th element, Aether- a divine substance that makes up heavenly bodies and spheres
- born 384 B.C died 322 B.C.
- was taught by plato
- accomplish: Aristotle, Plato, Socrates
- Socrates: the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing
- Hope is a walking dream-Aristotle
- Athneian Government
- Democracy
- Have democracy because a family relationships used to dominate certain areas
- members had certain rights, obligations, and privileges
- All freed men were allowed to participate and all male citizens
- There is a legistative branch, assebly of 6000, council of 500, judicial branch, arbitration, jury courts, areopagos, executive branch, magisstrates, and law enforcement
- People liked the democracy liked it because they could do whatever they wanted, they could vote to raise taxes one day and cut them the next
- There were some people that didnt like it, Thucydides blamed the loss of the Athenian Empire on incompetent leadership
- Constitution took about 150 years to the oint where most people call today democracy
- Dracon, Solon, Peisistratus, and Cleisthenes were key players
- People do not elect representatives to vote, they vote on legislation and executive bills
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