Philosopherlapalooza

• Socrates
• looked to science and logic (not the mythological gods) for explanations of how the world worked
• the Socratic Method fostered critical thinking
• "the unexamined life is not worth living"
• Socrates was charges with impiety and corruption of the Athenian youth
• at his trial, he described himself as a stinging gadfly, and Athens as a lazy old horse.
• did not deny what he had done; asked for free dinners
• found guilty by an Athenian jury and was sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock
• Plato
• Student of Socrates
• wrote out Socrates’ teachings, and described his trial in Apology(explanation)
• Republic was Socrates’ discussion of justice and the ideal state and one of the most influential books on philosophy ever written
• Aristotle
• student of Plato
• he helped foster the idea of Athens as an intellectual destination
• his school - the Lyceum - focused on cooperative research - building on knowledge gathered from all over the world 
• He wrote on topics such as 
• logic - physics - biology 
• ethics - politics - rhetoric
• motion - theater - poetry
• metaphysics - psychology - dream
• Tutored Alexander the great
• dreamed of getting all knowledge in one location