Socrates-Plato-Aristotle timeline October 1, 2007
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Socrates lived from 470 to 399. He is most admired for his irony in undermining conventional ideas. He was Plato’s teacher.
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Plato lived from 428 to 348. He is famous for creating the notion that ideas rule the world. He was Aristotle’s teacher.
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Aristotle lived from 384 to 322 . He is best remembered for setting the basis to logics as a method. He taught Alexander the Great.
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And who was Alexander the Great? When he died at the age of 33, he had overrun half the world with his armies. He was never defeated, died of a cold.
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photo courtesy gD
the two school kids are from a drawing by Gary Olsen
the quote is from Google Groups at http://tinyurl.com/ye3ujve
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would you put it so simply that plato created the notion that the world is run by ideas?
John Maynard Keynes wrote that ideas, “both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.”
(From the NYT)
“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.” — B. Russell