Socrates
- Looked to science and logic for explanations of how the world worked
- The Socratic Method fostered critical thinking
- Had a famous quote- "the unexamined life is not worth living."
- Socrates was charged with serious crimes
- impiety (disrespecting the gods)
- corrupting the youth of Athens
- At his trial, he describes himself as a stinging gadfly, and Athens as a lazy old horse- he was trying to give Athens life
- Did not deny what he had done; asked for free dinners because he believed that he helped everyone
- Found guilty by a Athenian jury, and was sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock- body starts to stop working and you slowly die
Plato
- Plato was a student and follower of Socrates
- He wrote out Socrates’ teachings, and described his trial in the book he wrote; Apology
- Republic was Socrates’ discussion of justice and the ideal state - one of the most influential books on philosophy ever written
- Republic was the second book Plato wrote
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