Notes:
Socrates:
- Philosopher
- was Plato's Teacher
- most of the stuff we know about him is from the works of Plato
- most known for teaching and communication
Background:
- spent all of his life in Athens except for his military time
- served on the legislative council of 500
- nothing is known about his childhood but we can tell from his learnings that he attended schools of Athens
Beliefs:
- believed that the best way for people to live their lives is to focus on self development oposed to the pursuit of meterial wealth
- socrates formed the idea that intelligence embodied the knowledge of ones own ignorance
Aristotle:
- contributed majorly in the study and teaching of physics and astronomy among other subjects
- student of Plato
- wrote 200 trestles only 31 survived
- father of the feild of logic
Background:
- born in Stagira
- the son of physician to king of Macedon
- for a while he was the tutor for alexander the great
- he attended Plato's academy to learn
- eventually created his own school
Plato:
- contributed mainly to the philosophy of metaphysics
- formed the cocept that the idea or soul of someting must exist before the physical aspect can
- best writer in western tradition
- most influential writer in philosophy
- born into an athenian family
- one of the most creative and influential thinkers of the ancient world
- after meeting Socrates, Plato turned to philosophy
-they knew each other
-plato was a student of Socrates at the academy in Athens the first insititution of higher learning in the westen world
-when Socrates was 60 Plato was 20 and came to im as a pupil
-When Plato was 60 Aristotle came to him as a pupil at the age of 17
Ranks:
- Aristotle is ranked first becasue he is a Greek philosopher. A great writer and a good person. One of the most founding figured in western philosophy
- Socrates because he is and enigmatic figure, known chiefly throught the classical writers
- Plato, the founder of Academy of Athens
Athena:
Gods:
- Zeus - Many Athenian people belivd in Zeus. Was the god of the sky and weather and his image apeared on most greek coins
- Apollo - was the god of light, he was known for killing a giant snak e that was harassing his mother
- Artemis - Was the female god of hunting, wilderness and wild animals also the god of childbirth
- Aphrodite - female god of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation
- Poseidon - was the olympic god of the sea, rivers, flood and drought, earthquakes, and horses. Supposedly looked as if he were an old man with a dark beard and holding a trident
- Venus - God of love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory
- Ares - God of war, battle, civil order and courage
- Dionysus- God of wine and drunkenness
- Hephaestus - God of technology
- Athena - God of wisdom and courage
- Hermes - God of boundaries and transitions
- Hades - Was the kind of the Underworld and the god of death and the dead. Hades was also known as the god of the hidden wealth of the earch, he made the soil fertile, gave riches of gold, silver and other metals to the ground
- Demeter - God of harvest, grain and fertility of the earth
- Hestia - Virgin God of hearth and agriculture
- Hera - Female God of women and marrige
Origin of religion:
- greek religion was a predominant form of early paganism and as a result their religion reflected many central ideas and concepts of earlier forms of Pafanism
- Religion was a very important aspect of greek society and culture
- greeks belived that they had to worship and please the gods in order to have good fortune
Why they prayed:
- they prayed to the gods for religious purposes and worshiped the gods because they believed the controlled the owrld and controlled everything that happened
- prayed to thank the god and pray for certain things to happen
- also prayed to he god for the same reason we pray today
Monotheist & Polytheist:
- Monotheist is beleiving in one god
- Polytheist is believing in more than one god
Religion & Mythology:
- they differ but have overlapping aspects
- both terms refer to systems of concepts that are of high importance to certain community making statements concerning the supernatural or sacred
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