1. The Greek Mind pp. 278-282 Greek Philosophers Handout
Chapter 10.2
Essential Question:
In modern times, how do new ideas change the way people live?

2. Greek Philosophers Greek Philosophers Greek Philosophers
Socrates c BC
Plato c BC
Aristotle c BC
Greek Philosophers
Greek Philosophers
Greek Philosophers
Greek Philosophers
Socrates c B,C.
Lived in Athens and trained to be a ____________
Loved _______________ and teaching
Asked ___________ as a teaching strategy– Socratic Method
Wanted students to question and ________ for themselves
Leaders feared his ______________
Arrested in 399 B.C.
Found guilty and sentenced to death by _________
Plato c B.C.
Student of ________
Became a teacher and founded the _________ in Athens
Wrote The __________, plan for society and government
Wanted philosopher _____ to rule
Didn’t think __________ people could think for themselves
Believed ________ should have more rights
Aristotle c B.C.
335 B.C. started the __________ school
Taught the “golden mean” live _____________
Influenced modern _________
Wrote Politics, a book on _____________
Believed best government had features of monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy
Influenced later governments, including the ___
____________ the Great was his student.
Socrates c B,C.
Lived in Athens and trained to be a ____________
Loved _______________ and teaching
Asked ___________ as a teaching strategy– Socratic Method
Wanted students to question and ________ for themselves
Leaders feared his ______________
Arrested in 399 B.C.
Found guilty and sentenced to death by _________
Plato c B.C.
Student of ________
Became a teacher and founded the _________ in Athens
Wrote The __________, plan for society and government
Wanted philosopher _____ to rule
Didn’t think __________ people could think for themselves
Believed ________ should have more rights
Aristotle c B.C.
335 B.C. started the __________ school
Taught the “golden mean” live _____________
Influenced modern _________
Wrote Politics, a book on _____________
Believed best government had features of monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy
Influenced later governments, including the ___
____________ the Great was his student.
Socrates c B,C.
Lived in Athens and trained to be a ____________
Loved _______________ and teaching
Asked ___________ as a teaching strategy– Socratic Method
Wanted students to question and ________ for themselves
Leaders feared his ______________
Arrested in 399 B.C.
Found guilty and sentenced to death by _________
Plato c B.C.
Student of ________
Became a teacher and founded the _________ in Athens
Wrote The __________, plan for society and government
Wanted philosopher _____ to rule
Didn’t think __________ people could think for themselves
Believed ________ should have more rights
Aristotle c B.C.
335 B.C. started the __________ school
Taught the “golden mean” live _____________
Influenced modern _________
Wrote Politics, a book on _____________
Believed best government had features of monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy
Influenced later governments, including the ___
____________ the Great was his student.
Socrates c B,C.
Lived in Athens and trained to be a ____________
Loved _______________ and teaching
Asked ___________ as a teaching strategy– Socratic Method
Wanted students to question and ________ for themselves
Leaders feared his ______________
Arrested in 399 B.C.
Found guilty and sentenced to death by _________
Plato c B.C.
Student of ________
Became a teacher and founded the _________ in Athens
Wrote The __________, plan for society and government
Wanted philosopher _____ to rule
Didn’t think __________ people could think for themselves
Believed ________ should have more rights
Aristotle c B.C.
335 B.C. started the __________ school
Taught the “golden mean” live _____________
Influenced modern _________
Wrote Politics, a book on _____________
Believed best government had features of monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy
Influenced later governments, including the ___
____________ the Great was his student.

3. Greek Thinkers

4. Greek Thinkers
500 B.C. to 350 B.C was known as the Golden Age of Greece.
Art, architecture, literature, and philosophy thrived
Philosophy is a Greek word meaning “love of wisdom”

5. The Sophists

6. The Sophists
Sophists were teachers that traveled from one polis to another.
They taught all subjects, including rhetoric, the art of speaking and debate.
Didn’t believe the gods had power over humans
Challenged Greek traditions
Taught winning was better than seeking the truth

7. Who Was Socrates?

8. Socrates Lived in Athens and trained to be a sculptor
Loved philosophy and teaching
Believed in absolute truth and knowledge is in everyone
Didn’t leave written records but students wrote about him
Asked questions as teaching strategy – Socratic method
Wanted students to question and think for themselves

10. Socrates After Peloponnesian War, open debate wasn’t trusted in Athens
Leaders feared his influence
Arrested in 399 B.C. and charged with encouraging the young to rebel
Found guilty and sentenced to death by poison
He was given the opportunity to leave Athens, but refused saying he had to follow the law.

11. Plato’s Ideas

13. Plato Student of Socrates
Quit career in government after death of Socrates
Became a teacher and founded the Academy in Athens
Wrote The Republic, plan for society and government
Wanted philosopher kings to rule
Didn’t think common people could think for themselves
Believed women should have more rights

14. Who Was Aristotle?

15. Aristotle 335 B.C. started the Lyceum school
Taught the “golden mean”, live moderately
His methods of studying science influenced modern science
Wrote Politics, a book on government
Believed best government had features of monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy
Influenced later governments including the U.S.
Alexander the Great was his student

16. Essential Question
In ancient times, how did new ideas change the way people lived?
Give evidence from the textbook
Answer in your words, THEN
Cite your evidence

17. Horrible History
Socrates Rescue
Thinkers Song

18. Your turn
Your team must create a sec. song about the 3 philosophers.
You must use facts from the textbook in your song.
You have 40 mins. until show time!

19. New History and Science Ideas

20. Greeks and History Herodotus Thucydides
435 B.C. wrote a history of the Persians Wars
“Father of history”
Researched the events and questioned many people
Still believed gods played a role in events
Thucydides
Wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War
Believed on people made history
Wanted eyewitness accounts
Believed one could learn from mistakes of the past

21. The First Scientists
Believed natural events could be explained by logic
Thales studied astronomy
Pythagoras believed every relationship could be expressed in numbers.
Pythagorean Theorem

22. Ancient Greek Medicine
Hippocrates – “father of medicine”
Believed disease was from natural causes
Traveled all over Greece treating the sick
Hippocratic Oath – list of rules for doctors on how to treat patients
Doctors today use the Hippocratic Oath

23. Plato Socrates Hippocrates Aristotle Herodotus Thucydides
Philosopher
Socrates student
Opened the Academy
Wrote “the Republic”
Philosopher
He taught by asking questions
Sentenced to death
Greek thinkers
Hippocrates
Aristotle
Physician
“Father of Medicine”
Hippocratic Oath”
Patients privacy
Philosopher
Thought government should be divided
Study science through observation
Herodotus
Thucydides
Historian
“Father of History”
Mixed history with myths
Historian
Did NOT include gods
We could learn from the past

24. Essential Question:
In ancient times, how did new ideas change the way people lived?
Give evidence from the textbook
Answer in your words, THEN
Cite your evidence