1. THE THREE GREAT
GREEK TRIUMVIRATE :
SOCRATES , PLATO
and ARISTOTLE
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2.  World-renowned
philosophers.
 The
classical
Greek
trio of Plato, Socrates (his
teacher) and Aristotle (his student)
laid the fundamental ideas of
Western philosophy.
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4. WHO IS SOCRATES based on
the given CLIP?
 SOCRATIC
METHOD
Dialectic Method
A MAN OF VIRTUE
DIALOGUE
QUESTION and ANSWER ?????
= KNOWLEDGE and VIRTUE
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5. What’s the significance of this picture?
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6. •
Sophists- professional teachers
– Taught students how to win arguments
– Rejected the idea of an Absolute Right
& Wrong
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7. “The unexamined life is not
worth living. ... Wisdom
begins in wonder. ... There is
only one good, knowledge,
and one evil, ignorance.”
(Socrates, 469 - 399 B.C.)

8. “The philosopher is in love with
truth, that is, not with the
changing world of sensation,
which is the object of opinion,
but with the unchanging reality
which is the object of
knowledge.”
(Plato, 429 - 347 B.C.)
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9. “We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit. ... At his best, man is
the noblest of all animals;
separated from law and justice he
is the worst.”
(Aristotle, 384 - 322 B.C.)
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10. Philosopher
Ideas
Socrates
absolute truth exists within everyone;
Socratic method
Plato
government should be divided into three groups,
ruled by philosopher-kings; men and women
should have equal education and employment
Aristotle
“golden mean”; use senses to make observations
like a scientist; analyzed governments and
decided that the best was a mixture of
government by a few and democracy
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11. THREE TRIUMVIRATE IN
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
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12. SOCRATES
 Socrates:
Athens' street-corner
philosopher
 Socrates
was the big-city
philosopher in ancient Athens.
 Accused and convicted of corrupting
the youth, his only real crime was
embarrassing and irritating a number
of important people.
 His punishment was death.
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13. Socrates
Socrates didn't write books; he just
liked to ask probing and sometimes
humiliating questions, which gave
rise to the famous Socratic Method
of Teaching.
A man of VIRTUE
Famous quote: "The unexamined life is
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not worth living."

14. PLATO
 Plato:
The philosopher who would
be king
 An aristocratic man with plenty of
money
 the man's real (and little known)
name was Aristocles; Plato was just
a nickname given to him by his
friends, whose original connotation
made reference to his broad
shoulders.
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15. Plato
 Plato
became an enthusiastic and
talented student of Socrates and
wrote famous dialogues featuring his
teacher verbally grappling with
opponents
 believed in the pre-existence and
immortality of the soul, holding that
life is nothing more than the
imprisonment of the soul in a body
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16. Plato
 In
addition to the physical world,
there is a heavenly realm of greater
reality consisting in Forms, Ideals, or
Ideas (such as Equality, Justice,
Humanity,
 He wrote a famous treatise (The
Republic) on the ideal society, in
which he expressed the thought that
a philosopher, of all people, who
should be king and so on).
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17. ARISTOTLE
 Aristotle:
A long walk to the
Golden Mean
 Aristotle was Plato's best student. He
went on to become the very wellpaid tutor of Alexander the Great
 probably the highest paid
philosopher in history
 Aristotle started his own
philosophical school when he was 50
years old.
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18. Aristotle
 Although
he lived only ten more
years, he produced nearly a
thousand books and pamphlets, only
a few of which have survived.
 This great thinker was called
a peripatetic philosopher (peripateo
= "to walk around") because he liked
to lecture to his students while taking
a walk
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19. Aristotle
A
key theme in Aristotle's thought is
that happiness is the goal of life.
Aristotle was a good deal less otherworldly than Plato
 He voluntarily went into exile from
Athens when conditions became a
bit politically dangerous for him, in
his words, "lest Athens sin twice
against philosophy.
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20. Aristotle
 The
founder of logical theory,
Aristotle believed that the greatest
human endeavor is the use of
reason in theoretical activity.
 One of his best known ideas was his
conception of "The Golden Mean" —
"avoid extremes," the counsel of
moderation in all things.
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