Ancient Greeks made many in? uential contributions to western civilization such as in the areas of philosophy, art and architecture, and math and science. In every sector of life, from law to politics to sport, the terminology and innovations of this period are still relevant today. In fact, it’s fair to say Western civilization as we know it was made possible by the advancements made by our Greek ancestors. If the intelligent thinkers of the Ancient Greeks such as, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Hippocrates never challenged the way Greeks lived many of the ideas we have today would have never been established. Socrates was the original philosopher.
Socrates dies from headlock, he had the choice to live a lonely life with food and water or to take the poison and he picked the headlock, because He believed the search for truth would lead to proper conduct. “The unexamined life is not worth living”, that was the quote that Socrates believed by saying that the purpose of life was personal and spiritual growth. Considered the nature of beauty, knowledge and what is right.
His method was to ask questions, to try to expose the ? aws in his fellow Athenians’ preconceived notions. Socrates went on to teach Plato, the next great Athenian philosopher. Plato was a student of Socrates; he believed that only the wisest people should govern.
His 2rst book was: “The Republic” that described an idea government, not a democracy. From what Plato see the future all citizen would fall into three groups, the 2rst one is farmers, second is artisans, warriors and the ruling class. And the smartest and the most intelligent person from the ruling class would be chosen as philosopher – king. He established a school called the academy – taught philosophy, science and mathematics.
And Plato was a teacher for another philosopher Aristotle. Aristotle was a philosopher, a student of Plato. He opened his own school too (similar to Plato) called “the Lyceum”. He also established the science of reasoning, called logic (scienti2c method), he organized a system of classifying living thing. And Aristotle student was Alexander the great, a really big ruler that made his own empire that ruled on a lot of Middle East countries. All of these philosophers contributed ancient Greece by the way of thinking whats good and what is not, who is good who is not.