The Greek Philosophers

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Socrates

Socrates was convicted at the age of 70 of corrupting the youth.

His friends encouraged him to flee…

• “I will not go against the law. What’s done is done.”

Socrates drank a poison in his cell, rather than facing an

execution.

Socrates

Many of his students mourned his death, especially Plato.

Plato

Plato

• Emphasized reason• Wrote “The

Republic”• Men superior to

women in most instances.

• Student of Socrates

Aristotle

Aristotle

• Student of Plato• Created a special

school called the Lyceum

• Politics, ethics, logic, biology, literature, physics

Student of Aristotle

Herodotus

• Famous Greek historian.• Wrote the Histories.

Hippocrates

• Famous Greek Physician• Hippocratic Oath

Pythagoras

• Greek mathematician

• A* + B* = C*

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