Philosopherlapalooza - Socrates

• Looked to science and logic (not the mythological gods) for explanations on how the world worked
• The socratic method fostered critical thinking 
• "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
• Don't Just listen to teachers, think for yourself

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• "The unexamined life is not worth living"
• Socrates was charged with serious crimes
• Impiety (disrespecting the gods)
• Corrupting the youth of Athens
• at his trail, he described himself as a stinging gadfly, and Athens as a lazy old horse
• did not deny what he had done; asked for free dinner
• found guilty by an Athenian jury, and sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock

Plato carries on

• Plato was a student and follower of Socrates
• He wrote out Socrates' teachings, and described his trial in Apology
• Republic was Socrates' discussion of justice and the ideal state - one of the most influential books on philosophy ever written

Aristotle - so ambitious

• Student of Plato
• Believed Athens should be an intellectual destination
• his school - the Lyceum - focused on cooperative research