HISTORY

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HISTORY PHILOSOPHY
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HISTORY

• Herodotus father of history
• frequently added fables and superstition to the
  facts
• wrote about the Persian Wars
• Thucydides 1st scientific historian
• accurate impartial view of the Peloponnesian
  War
• Very demanding in his methodology

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PHILOSOPHY
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SOCRATES

• believed in absolute standards for truth
  justice
• Socratic Method believed all knowledge was
  innate and the teacher had to draw it out through
  constant questioning
• convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens
  (chose to drink poison rather than exile)

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plato

• Socrates most famous student
• The Republic
• Outlined the ideal society in which people are
  divided into three groups(gold philosophers,
  silver warriors, bronze farmers)
• government should be run by the smartest
• Allegory of the Cave
• His school in Athens was The Academy

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ARISTOTLE

• Platos most famous student
• Traveled widely and often disagreed with Plato on
  many topics
• Set up his school called the Lyceum, which taught
  all branches of knowledge
• Believed the best government would be run by a
  single virtuous ruler
• His most famous student was Alexander the Great