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GREEK PHILOSOPHERS – WHO AM I?. WAS WELL KNOWN IN ATHENS IN 423 BC FOR HIS NON-TRADITIONAL TEACHING METHODS. HE DID NOT KEEP A FORMAL SCHOOL. SOCRATES.

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1 GREEK PHILOSOPHERS – WHO AM I?

2 WAS WELL KNOWN IN ATHENS IN 423 BC FOR HIS NON-TRADITIONAL TEACHING METHODS. HE DID NOT KEEP A FORMAL SCHOOL. SOCRATES

3 WAS A STUDENT OF SOCRATES. PLATO

4 FOUNDED HIS OWN SCHOOL IN ATHENS – THE LYCEUM. ARISTOTLE

5 WROTE THE REPUBLIC. PLATO

6 WAS AN INFLUENTIAL WESTERN PHILOSOPHER WHO NEVER WROTE A WORD HIMSELF. HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY WAS TO REDIRECT QUERIES TOWARD QUESTIONS OF ETHICAL CONDUCT. HE BELIEVED A MORAL LIFE BROUGHT MAN HAPPINESS AND THAT MORALITY WAS SOMETHING THAT COULD BE TRANSMITTED THROUGH EDUCATION. SOCRATES

7 ALEXANDER WAS ONE OF HIS MOST FAMOUS STUDENTS. ARISTOTLE

8 CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF THE THREE? SOCRATES (469-399 BC) PLATO (427-347 BC) ARISTOTLE (384-322 BC)

9 HIS WILLINGNESS TO CRITICIZE ARGUMENTS THAT HE FOUND UNSOUND, REGARDLESS OF SUBJECT, CHALLENGED AND THREATENED SOME PROMINENT ATHENIANS. SOCRATES

10 FOUNDED THE ACADEMY IN ATHENS – ONE OF THE FIRST ORGANIZED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE WESTERN WORLD (ATHENS IN 386 B.C.) PLATO


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