 Acropolis of Athens: Civic
and religious buildings of
the Athenian city-state
 The Parthenon: A great
temple in Athens built and
decorated during 447-432
BCE (Commissioned by
Pericles and paid for with
Delian League money)
 Delian League: A union of
Greek city-states formed in
the fifth century BCE to
fight the Persians.
 Western philosophy began with the Greek thinkers of
the ancient world
 Word "philosophy" means "love of wisdom”
 1st to ask…What is the nature of the world? What is
the nature of man?
 Laid the foundation for Western intellectual history
 Socrates (470BCE-399BCE)
 Socratic method: Based on cross-examination
as a way to uncover inconsistencies in the
assumptions inherent in other questions
 Wanted to make people examine false
assumptions
 Plato (427BCE-347BCE)
 Socrates' death turned Plato away from
democracy
 Created The Academy (a school to teach his
thoughts and to make philosopher-kings)
 Wrote: The Republic and expresses a belief that
philosophers equipped with knowledge should
be allowed to rule over the masses, who lived in
ignorance (**was against democracy)
 384BCE-322BCE
 Studied at Plato’s Academy
 Teacher of Alexander the
Great
 1 of the first empirical
thinkers
 Applied the scientific
approach to human
behavior, natural
philosophy, natural science,
ethics, and metaphysics
 Began “modern history” with effort to
understand and explain changes in
Athenian politics and power
 Herodotus: The Persian Wars
 Thucydides: History of the
Peloponnesian War
HERODOTUS:
1st Historian
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