Plato & Aristotle Notes

PLATO
-very well educated
-forefathers=kings
-aristocrat(rich/wealthy)
- mother married Pericles
-well educated
-teacher=Socrates
-created 1st university(Athens Academy)
-wrote dialogues
-invent concept of Hell, it was adapted by Christians
-come up with the story of Atlantis
-Write Symposium (love),The Laws(laws of humans), Apolgy(Socrates death speech), Atlantis(lost city)
-Socrates believed people were in control of their own destiny, not the Gods
-heavily influenced by Socrates
-3 class:
1. rational(upper class)
2. spirited(not rational/happy)
3. lower class(desiring)
-all 3 classes balanced each other out
-upper class got education because they could afford it
-upper class ruled
-classes defined by education

Aristotle
-philosoperher
-father= king's doctor
-enrolled at Athen's Academy at 17
-became a teacher there
-couldnt go home after Plato's death because his hometown was trashed by Mesadonians
-After Plato's death, he went to minor Asia and mrried the king's niece
-after the king died, he went to Pella
-he made close friends with the Macedonian king and the king asked him to tutor his son Alexander the Great
-he started his own school Lyceum
-spent his last years away from school in a private estate
-his idea that earth was the center of the universe was wrong
-Copernicuse then revealed that the sun was the center
-5 elemens= earth/wind/fire/ air/water
-he thought that the denser object fell first(wrong)
-Galileo prove that objects any size both fall at the same rate
-believed there was no evolution
-virtuous
-moral
-intellectual