Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Ancient Greece

Arete:

  • Moral Virtue
  • Act of living up to one's full potential
  • Fulfilling purpose in life
  • Excellence of any kind
Important quote- (Human knowledge is about knowledge itself)

Agora:
  • Gathering place, assembly center where people went for important events
Polis:
  • Political entities ruled by bodies of citizens
  • Origin of the words politics, metropolitan and poll
Socrates:
  • As young men they worked as stonemasons
  • Fought in Peloponnesian war
  • Working class background and battles shaped the way he viewed the world  
  • Met with students, asked questions to get underlying belief's of there knowledge also known as the Socratic method

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