Notes

Plato

• Descendant of kings and other royalty
• Aristocrat for his whole life
• Mother married Pericles
• Socrates was his teacher
• Plato left Greece but then came back
• Founded the Academy which was a really good school
• He lived off of other's good will
• Wrote a bunch of books but the Republic was most famous
• Told the true story of Atlantis and created the idea of Hell
• Talked about the state and individual
• 3 parts of classes from lowest to highest: Desired, Spirited, and the Rational
• People need to be ruled by Rational
• Education determines class
• Leaders should be deprived of private life to focus on civil affairs

Aristotle

• Most Famous Greek philosopher and scientist
• Came to Athens at 17 and went to the Academy
• Was so smart Plato made him a teacher
• When Plato died Aristotle couldn't go home because his house had been sacked
• Went to Asia Minor aka Persia
• After his King friend died he went to Pella for some reason
• Became Alexander's personal tutor
• Ya, that Alexander
• Alexander conquered the known world and Aristotle went back to Greece
• Founded his school named Lyceum
• something about esoteric and exoteric
• Wrote 170 texts because he had nothing better to do i guess
• Thought about Geocentricity
• No evolution in his mind
• Did Psychology and Ethics
• He believed you either had moral values or intellectual values