1. The Greek Golden Age
Entry # 12

2. Objective
Describe the importance of education and philosophy during the Greek Golden Age

3. What’s a Golden Age? Greek Golden Age (500-300 BCE)
Major advancements in literature, education, art/architecture, philosophy
Patronage, or support/encouragement for the arts, becomes a major reason for a Golden Age.
Greek Golden Age ( BCE)

4. Charioteer of Delphi
Discobolous

5. Philosophy Philosophy
1. Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline.
2. Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical method (freedictionary.com)

6. Socrates
Asked questions to get people to think about the world around them
Loved to criticize the government
Gov’t believed Socrates corrupted youth
Sentenced to death by poisoning (hemlock)
People must understand themselves before they can know right from wrong
“The unexamined life is not worth living”

8. The Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis-David

9. Plato Student of Socrates…disappointed in gov’t
A ruler should be of good character (wise)…must study hard and love wisdom
Founded the Academy in 385 BCE
Special school that taught those lessons on how to govern
A person’s reality is a combination of knowledge acquired through learning and opinions based on experience

11. Aristotle Entered Plato’s Academy at 18…studied for 20 years
1st scientist…studied both animals and plants
Interested in how things really are…the physical world is a combination of the elements of fire, air, earth, and water. All human knowledge comes from experience

12. You become the Philosopher
Pretend you are speaking to either Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle. The question has been asked…”Do the Gods make it rain?”. From what you know of these philosophers and their ideas, provide an answer to this question.