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THE THREE GREAT GREEK TRIUMVIRATE :
SOCRATES , PLATO and ARISTOTLE
Prepared by: Raizza Corpuz
World-renowned classical Greek philosophers.
The trio of Plato, Socrates (his teacher) and Aristotle (his student) laid the fundamental ideas of Western philosophy.
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WHO IS SOCRATES based on the given CLIP?
SOCRATIC METHODDialectic Method
DIALOGUEQUESTION and
ANSWER ?????
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A MAN OF VIRTUE
What’s the significance of this picture?
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• Sophists- professional teachers– Taught students how to win arguments– Rejected the idea of an Absolute Right
& Wrong
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“The unexamined life is not worth living. ... Wisdom
begins in wonder. ... There is only one good, knowledge,
and one evil, ignorance.”
(Socrates, 469 - 399 B.C.)
“The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the
changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality
which is the object of knowledge.”
(Plato, 429 - 347 B.C.)
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“We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit. ... At his best, man is
the noblest of all animals;
separated from law and justice he
is the worst.”
(Aristotle, 384 - 322 B.C.)
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PhilosopherPhilosopher IdeasIdeas
SocratesSocrates absolute truth exists within everyone;
Socratic method
PlatoPlato government should be divided into three groups, ruled by philosopher-kings; men and women should have equal education and employment
AristotleAristotle “golden mean”; use senses to make observations like a scientist; analyzed governments and decided that the best was a mixture of government by a few and democracy
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THREE TRIUMVIRATE IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
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SOCRATES Socrates: Athens' street-corner
philosopher
Socrates was the big-city philosopher in ancient Athens.
Accused and convicted of corrupting the youth, his only real crime was embarrassing and irritating a number of important people.
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Socrates
Socrates didn't write books; he just liked to ask probing and sometimes humiliating questions, which gave
rise to the famous Socratic Method of Teaching.
A man of VIRTUE
Famous quote: "The unexamined life is not worth living." RPCorpuz 2013
PLATO
Plato: The philosopher who would be king
An aristocratic man with plenty of money
the man's real (and little known) name was Aristocles; Plato was just a nickname given to him by his friends, whose original connotation made reference to his broad shoulders.
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Plato
Plato became an enthusiastic and talented student of Socrates and wrote famous dialogues featuring his teacher verbally grappling with opponents
believed in the pre-existence and immortality of the soul, holding that life is nothing more than the imprisonment of the soul in a body
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Plato In addition to the physical world,
there is a heavenly realm of greater reality consisting in Forms, Ideals, or Ideas (such as Equality, Justice, Humanity,
He wrote a famous treatise (The Republic) on the ideal society, in which he expressed the thought that a philosopher, of all people, who should be king and so on).
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ARISTOTLE
Aristotle: A long walk to the Golden Mean
Aristotle was Plato's best student. He went on to become the very well-paid tutor of Alexander the Great
probably the highest paid philosopher in history
Aristotle started his own philosophical school when he was 50 years old.
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Aristotle
Although he lived only ten more years, he produced nearly a thousand books and pamphlets, only a few of which have survived.
This great thinker was called a peripatetic philosopher (peripateo = "to walk around") because he liked to lecture to his students while taking a walk
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Aristotle
A key theme in Aristotle's thought is that happiness is the goal of life. Aristotle was a good deal less other-worldly than Plato
He voluntarily went into exile from Athens when conditions became a bit politically dangerous for him, in his words, "lest Athens sin twice against philosophy.
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Aristotle
The founder of logical theory, Aristotle believed that the greatest human endeavor is the use of reason in theoretical activity.
One of his best known ideas was his conception of "The Golden Mean" — "avoid extremes," the counsel of moderation in all things.
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