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The Cosmologists

The Cosmologists. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Socrates s. “Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.” “Envy is the ulcer of the soul.” “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. “.

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The Cosmologists

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  1. The Cosmologists Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

  2. Socratess “Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.” “Envy is the ulcer of the soul.” “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. “

  3. Socrates  470 B.C. to 399 B.C. The unexamined life is not worth living!! • Soldier in the Peloponnesian War before becoming a teacher. • Did not believe that teachers should be paid to teach; did not believe in memorization • Evil could result from ignorance • Socratic Method – persistent questioning • Criticized democracy – made many enemies • Put on trial and convicted for corrupting the minds of Athenian Youth

  4. Plato “Death is not the worst that can happen to men.“ “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”

  5. Plato - 427B.C. to 347B.C. • Student of Socrates • Recorded his ideas • Wealthy, young aristocrat • Founded the Academy • Wrote dialogues, The Republic • People should do the work for which they are best suited. • Aristocracy based on intelligence, reasoning, and education What would Socrates say?

  6. Aristotle “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

  7. Aristotle - 384 BC to 322 BC An aristocracy can be easily corrupted!! • Student of Plato • Collected and organized facts • Classified plants and animals • Balance, order and restraint • Studied 150 city-states • Best gov’t contained a middle class

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