Most people can't point where Greece is on the map; some even believe that Greece is a thing of the past and now perhaps some other nation occupies the space that once was Greece. Though nothing of that is true, most of the people seam to know one thing: that Greece is somehow the place that democracy was introduced to the world and the place that born more philosophers and thinkers than any other place in this world.
A small rather rocky peninsula in the lower Balkans, hundreds of small little islands and a cost line larger than the cost line of England, Greece still stands at the same place it was 2500 ago. During that time, for once more, East was clashing with West and strange new and radical ideas where born in the heads of a hand full of men. These men were destine to shape the way that the rest of the Western world would think, question, and examine God, man, and nature from that point and after. The Greek thinking is the base of all we know today for it paved the way of how we examine and seek the true answers to our questions.
PLATO
Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here
An immensely influential ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and founder of the Academy in Athens where Aristotle studied.Plato's writings are debates concerning the best possible form of government, ethics, metaphysics and the distinction between knowledge and true belief.
Plato's teachings, studies and writings survived through his successors who managed to keep the Academy operating for almost one thousand years until the Byzantine emperor Justinian I closed it, marking the end of the ancient world and antiquity.
"Courage is Knowing what not to fear"
"You can easily forgive a child that is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light"
Ant the light is truth.
"Ignorance is the root and the stem of every evil"
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ARISTOTLE
"The science of the universal essence of that which is actual"
Aristotle wrote on diverse subjects, including physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, and biology. Aristotle, along with Plato and Socrates, is generally considered one of the most influential of ancient Greek philosophers. Their work is the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it today.
"We make war that we might live in peace"
"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law"
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion and desire."
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SOCRATES
"What are these things that you are telling me now Socrates?"
An Athenian Philosopher famous for his view of philosophy as a pursuit proper and necessary to all intelligent men, he is one of the great examples of a man who lived by his principles even though they ultimately cost him his life. Though he never left any written work most of what we know about him and his view comes form the work of his student Plato."I know nothing exept the fact of my ignorance"
"Bad men live that they can eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live"
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Philosophers quiz
How much do you know about Greek Philosophers?
Okay, somone doesn't have to be Greek to know who Plato or Socrates was, but can you tell just from a name who might not have been a philoshoper?
Hint: Mathematicians and other scientists are considered Philosophers.
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