The Scientific Revolution

SOCRATES
•Most influencial philosopher
•Layed the ground work for
western philosophy
•Born in 469 BCE
•Athens Greece
Golden Age of Athens
•Rapid development and
democratization
•Soldier
•Stone cutter
•Before becoming a philosopher

Very little is known about Socrates

 SYMPOSIUM – nature of LOVE

LOVE is neither PHYSICAL nor DIVINE and it

cannot be described as GOOD or BEAUTIFUL

LOVE is the DESIRE of seeking SOMETHING

To uproot IGNORANCE (danger to
Society), he moves around the
city to press on the peoples’
belief and exposing that they
know nothing
•Process of gradual questioning
•Greatest contribution to the
academic world
 Critical discussions

Scientific Method
•Forced Politicians and the Elites to question their own truth and
more than once openly embarassed them
FIRST TRUE and GREATEST
PHILOSOPHER
Athens (2400 years ago)

•Bars
•Theaters
•Temples
•Shopping arcades
•Gymnasium

HOME of PLATO
•Plato devoted his life to one GOAL, that is
helping people to reach the state of
36 Dialogues
• imaginary dialogues in which
SOCRATES always has a starring role
 •People tend to spend
time to think and
usually follows DOXA
(popular opinion)

DOXA tends to make us choose the wrong values, carreers and relationships
SUBJECT your IDEAS to EXAMINATION rather than
acting on IMPULSE
•The person you need to be with must have GOOD
qualities which you yourself lack
•The right person for us helps us grow to our full
potential
“A couple shouldn’t love each other
exactly as they are right now......they
should be committed to educating each
other and to enduring the stormy
passages that the relationship inevitably
involves, each person must want the
other to become a better version of
themselves”

•
•Plato asks why do we like beauty
•Beautiful objects are whispering to us the truth about the GOOD LIFE
We find something beautiful when we unconsciously
sense in them qualities we need that are missing in
our lives
•Gentleness
•Harmony
•Balance
•Peace
•Strength

Beautiful objects help to educate our SOUL

UGLINESS – danger, damage, makes it hard to

become wise, kind and calm

Platos sees ART as therapeutic

How government and society should ideally BE
Plato is not insterested on how
Sparta developed its people
successfully in the military point of
view but rather how have a society
with fulfilled people
THE REPUBLIC (pointed out
changes that needed to be made)
•New celebrities to admire (guardians-wise
and good people, models for everyone’s
development)
•Wants to end democracy (few people think
properly before they vote as such they get
substandard rulers); prevent people from
voting until they start to think rationaly (until
they become philisophers)