Earlyempirespeoples Academy. Works Gorgias, Phaedon, The Republic, theaetetus, Timaeus. Platon.Solon, Greek statesman c. 640559, athens' second lawgiver. http://stabi.hs-bremerhaven.de/whkmla/sat/wb/ant/clasgr/clasgrbio.html
Biography Of Plato Then, in 387 BC Plato returned to athens after travelling for a few on his own personalphilosophical ideas with The Republic, The Sophist, and theaetetus. http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/bioplato.htm
Extractions: Back to the Table of Contents Biographies of Mathematicians-Plato "I am the wisest man in Athens because I know I don't know. I am only singularly ignorant. The rest of the citizens are twice ignorant. They think they know, but they still don't know. (Plato in his dialogue "The Republic") Background Plato was born in Athens, Greece in 427 BC. Plato was born in Athens, Greece to one of the oldest and most distinguished families in the city. He lived with his mother, Perictione, and his father, Ariston (Until Ariston died.) As a young man, Plato grew up wanting to be a politician. However, after witnessing his mentor's killing and discovering the true heartlessness of politics, his interests changed and he was no longer wanted a place in government. Then, in 387 B.C. Plato returned to Athens after travelling for a few years. He set up the Academy, which many scholars consider to be the first University. Subjects taught in the University included astronomy, biological sciences, mathematics, and political science. According to legend, his University stood in a place that was once owned by the Greek hero, Academus. That's where we began to use the term academy when referring to schools. He stayed there and headed the school for the remainder of his life. Influences Socrates(470-399 BC) was a Greek philosopher who greatly impacted Plato through his teachings.
Index Of Ancient Greek Mathematicians And Astronomers He was the founder of the Lyceum in athens, also called the peripatetic school becausethe philosophers were thought while walking. theaetetus (4th century BC http://www.ics.forth.gr/~vsiris/ancient_greeks/classical_period.html
Extractions: Within this period Athens flourishes under Pericles, the Parthenon is built on the Acropolis, the tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are created, the phisolophical schools of Socrates and Plato (known as Academy) are established, and the Lyceum of Athens is founded by Aristotle. In science, the importance of the experimental method is accepted. Socrates (Athens, 470-399 B.C.). Died from poison after the state found him guilty for corrupting the youth. Theodorus of Cyrene (4th century B.C.). . Pythagorean. Plato's teacher in mathematics. Shows that the square roots of 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, and 17 are irrational. Archytas of Tarentum (420-350 B.C.). Greek mathematician, astronomer and engineer. Last of the Pythagorians. Plato and Eudoxus was his pupils. Built a series of toys, among them a mechanical pigeon propelled by a steam jet. Developed the theory for the pulley. Plato (Athens, 430-350 B.C.) . Greek philosopher. He was the founder of the Academy (named from the hero Academos owner of the grove where the Academy was built). Believed that mathematics played an important role in education. Disregarded practicality, a belief he passed to his students such as Eucledes. He started a three part trilogy :
Classical Philosophy Contributors University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Aëtius, Apollodorus of athens, Diogenes Laertius atLos Angeles, USA (Aristarchus, Nicomachus, theaetetus and Theodorus). http://www.fitzroydearborn.com/Contribs/ClaPhilB.htm
Extractions: Contributors James Allen, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, USA (Aenesidemus, Agrippa, Arcesilaus, Lacydes, Pyrrho and Pyrrhonism, Sextus Empiricus, Timon) David Armstrong, Professor of Classics, The University of Texas at Austin, USA (Manichaeanism) Elizabeth Asmis, Professor of Classics, The University of Chicago, USA (Epictetus, Epicurus, Panaetius, Philodemus, Seneca) Andrew Barker, Reader in Classics, University of Birmingham, UK (Aristoxenus, Damon) Richard Bett, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, USA (Carneades, Clitomachus, Skepticism) D. L. Blank, Professor of Classics, University of California at Los Angeles, USA (Diogenes of Seleucia, Grammar) H. J. Blumenthal, Reader in Greek, University of Liverpool, UK (Ammonius, Plutarch of Athens, Syrianus, Themistius) István Bodnár
Zeno Philosophical Conference of Berkeley, California USA Zeno's epistemology and Plato's theaetetus DavidSedley Tusc.V Myrto Dragona-Monachou, University of athens, Greece Zeno's http://www.kypros.org/PIO/cyprus_today/jul_dec98/zenon.htm
Extractions: Zeno Philosophical Conference Last September Larnaca hosted a series of events including exhibitions, concerts, publications which culminated with an International Conference dedicated to the great Stoic philosopher Zeno under the title "Zeno and his Legacy". The events were organised by the Larnaca Municipality and the Pierides Foundation. The modern town of Larnaca built upon the ruins of the ancient city Kingdom of Kitium boasts to be the birthplace of the great philosopher. The conference was the most important philosophical gathering ever to be held on the subject of Zeno and Stoicism. Opening Ceremony A great number of prominent philosophers and erudite professors came from the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries and Greece. Zeno, son of Mnaseas, was born in Kitium of Cyprus in 336 B.C. and died in Athens in 264 B.C. There are different versions of how Zeno took up philosophy. According to Diogenes Laertius, Zeno was ship-wrecked near Piraeus while sailing from Phoenicia with a load of purple. "He was at that time thirty years old. Ascending to Athens, he entered a bookshop. While Zeno listened to the owner of the shop who was reading aloud the second book from the Memoirs of Xenophone (which as it is well-known refer to Socrates) he was so pleased that he asked where such men could be found today (meaning Socrates). At that time Crates was passing by and the bookseller pointed at him saying, ?Follow him'. Since that moment he became a student of Crates. Besides that, he himself had a strong aptitude to philosophy".
The Philosophy Of Plato - Page 1 After these unhappy attempts, Plato never left athens again, but of Socrates defendedGorgias; Meno; Euthydemus; Cratylus; theaetetus; Menexenus; Greater http://radicalacademy.com/philplato1.htm
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Extractions: (ALL DATES B.C. UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED) A. PRE-SOCRATICS 1. MILESIANS a. Thales of Miletus: ?c.624 - 548/5 (flourished 585, predicted eclipse of 585; held that all things are water). No Fragments Maybe one fragment of maybe 9 words c. Anaximenes of Miletus: (fl. 528/5, younger companion of Anaximander; held that all things are air, and earth rest on air.) d. Xenophanes of Colophon: c.570 - c.475 (fl. 540/537, attacks anthropomorphic theology, suggests humans can't have knowledge of the truth, having access only to 'seeming') f. Heraclitus of Ephesus: (fl. 504/501, held that "Everything changes, nothing remains""You can't step into the same river twice"though all things take place in accordance with a logos , which however most humans do not understand, living, as it were, in a dream. There is a kind of world-order in the midst of change, an order Heraclitus calls
Extractions: (approx) Code of Hammurabi "published," i.e. engraved on an eight-foot stone column in Babylon, great city of Mesopotamia. Contains the famous "eye for an eye" injunction; recognizes caste distinctions, but also makes provisions for such niceties as "intent." Babylonian slaves, unlike American slaves, had legal rights. (Brinton, I, 33) 1400 B.C. (approx) Minoan civilization on Crete destroyed, probably by volcano. (Brinton, I, 48) 1375 B.C. Ikhnaton becomes Pharoah of Egypt. "The first person in our history to stand out clearly as an idealistic reformer." He failed miserably, and priests set about eradicating his reforms immediately upon his death in 1358. (Brinton, 26) 1300 B.C.
Cv.html 9. Review of John McDowell, Plato theaetetus, Philosophical Review LXXXIV, no fromPhilosophy, in Language and Reality in Greek Philosophy (athens, 1985), 139 http://www.princeton.edu/~johncoop/cv.html
Extractions: CURRICULUM VITAE WITH PUBLICATIONS (September 1999) John Madison Cooper Born November 29, 1939, Memphis, Tennessee Married: August 21, 1965; two children Education Phillips Exeter Academy, 1953-1957. Harvard College, 1957-1961 (A.B. 1961, magna cum laude in Philosophy; Phi Beta Kappa, 1960). Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1961-63 (Marshall Scholarship; B.Phil. in Philosophy, 1963; thesis, First Philosophy in Aristotle Harvard University, 1963-1966 (Ph.D. 1967; thesis, Plato's Theaetetus Positions Instructor in Philosophy and the Classics, Harvard University, 1966-1967. Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the Classics, Harvard University, 1967-1971. Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1971-76. Visiting Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Spring Quarter, 1975. Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1976-81. Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Winter and Spring Quarters, 1976-77. Chairman, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1977-81. Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1980-81.
From Myth To Mind of Greece, he spent his days in the gymnasiums and colonnades of athens talking philosophy Socratesbegins his argument in both dialogues theaetetus Phaedrus http://www.wbenjamin.org/nc/nov30.html
Extractions: Back to schedule of class meetings: Lecture Notes: From Myth To Mind From Myth to Mind November 30, 1998 I. On Anaxagoras: A. (b. circa 500 BCE, Clazomenae, Anatolia - d. circa 428, Lampsacus, a Milesian colony on the Propontis. "He was eminent for wealth and noble birth, and furthermore for magnanimity, in that he gave up his patrimony to his relations." [D.L., op.cit., Vol. I, 137]. Anaxagoras moved to Athens in 480 BCE (the first Presocratic philosopher to reside there), bringing Ionian natural philosophy with him. Having been a Persian subject, he is thought to have served in the Persian army. He was nicknamed: "Mind" (nous), and was most notably associated with the Athenian Statesman, Pericles . Around 450 BCE he was prosecuted for atheism and 'impiety', having declared the sun to be "a fiery lump, larger than the Peloponnese" of Hellas. Anaxagoras was forced to leave Athens. B. His Works: Only fragments survive of his first book, the Physics [On Nature] C. Presocratic Influences on Anaxagoras: although his initial influences were Ionian physics (esp.
Unsaved:///newpage2.htm was born in athens as a son of Sophronicus who was supposed to be a stone mason,while his mother Phénarété was a midwife according to Plato's theaetetus. http://www.csudh.edu/phenom_studies/greekphil/greekphil_lect7.htm
Extractions: Socrates was born in Athens as a son of Sophronicus who was supposed to be a stone mason, while his mother Phénarété was a midwife according to Plato's Theaetetus . In stead of succeeding his father's trade, Socrates became a philosopher. Socrates, being extremely philosophically inclined, i.e., he was deeply in search of wisdom (love of wisdom = philo-sophia ) throughout his entire life. According to Plato, Socrates thought that he inherited his mother's profession of midwifery and he thought that the philosopher could be only a midwife for wisdom. For, as according to Socrates, philosophy, Love of Wisdom, cannot equip the philosopher with knowledge or wisdom, nor the philosopher can teach his students by providing them with wisdom and knowledge, as philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge which is only possible by being aware of one's lack of knowledge and wisdom. Thus, Socrates characterized the role of a philosopher as the midwife of wisdom and knowledge, namely the philosopher can only help the youth and others assisting them to have their own philosophy born and develop, and not impart any knowledge or skills to others like in the other scientific disciplines or arts.
Plato's Life In Context Plague in athens 43027 Sophocles' Oedipus Rex 429 Sophocles' Death 405; theaetetus,Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, Laws. *Note The dating of Plato's works is http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/courses/platotimeline.html
Extractions: Socrates: 469 - 399 B.C.E. Plato: 427 - 347 B.C.E. Aristotle: 384 - 323/2 B.C.E. Xenophon ?430 - 354: Apology, Memorabilia, Symposium, Economicus Aristophanes 445-385 The Clouds, 423 B.C.E. Aristotle: See Metaphysics 987B1-6, 1086a37-b5 Early: short, focused on ethical virtues, negative, Socrates has no knowledge
Philosophy - Sophists Protagoras He brought with him to athens many admirers from other Greek cities through whichhe had The first contained the theory refuted by Plato in the theaetetus. http://www.ancientgr.com/archaeonia/philosophy/sophists/protagoras.htm
The Aphorisms Of The Philosophers Sayings of major philosophers in rough chronological order, with some quotations in the original language Category Reference Quotations Wisdom Socrates c469399 BC Philosopher who taught in the marketplace in athens - he wrotenothing himself but is known from the writings of his theaetetus (Plato). http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/aphorism.htm
Extractions: " Sed nescio quod modo nihil tam absurde dicti potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum." (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.) Cicero aphorism /'aferiz(e)m/ n a concise pithy saying that expresses a truth; an adage: synonyms: PROVERB [MF aphorisme, fr LL aphorismus, fr Gk aphorismos definition, aphorism, fr aphorizein to define, fr apo- + horizein to bound] - aphorist n, aphoristic adj, aphoristically adv Solon (the Lawgiver) c640 - c556 BC Statesman of Athens, writer of its compassionate legal code. Wrongdoing can only be avoided if those who are not wronged feel the same indignation at it as those who are. Greek Wit (F. Paley) Speech is the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs,-for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off. Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (Diogenes Laertius) Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance.
Extractions: Installment 54 We are pleased to present, in installments, a very rare yet significant book written by former Congressman Henry George Jr. in 1905. Earlier installments are available at the Progress Report Archive. start of CHAPTER 23, CIVILIZATIONS GONE BEFORE The southeast wind has sprung up at sunset. It blows freely over the stern and swells the sails. The vessel leaps forward. As she rounds Cape Sounion and enters the Saronic Sea, Athens - superb, imperious, beloved Athens - though more than a score of miles away, shimmers through the crystalline atmosphere. There, distant, soft and mellow, is the temple-crested citadel of the violet-crowned city. There the matchless Parthenon rises, and beside its columns and pediment shine flamelike the golden helmet and spear-head of the colossal goddess, Athene Promarchus - "she who fights in the foremost rank." Behind the city lies Mount Hymettus, "violet-bathed" in the sunset. Later, as the vessel speeds on, ranges into view "rosy-tinted" Mount Pentelicus; and then Mount Lycabettus, as in a "furnace glow." How the traveler's heart beats and leaps before him as he gazes! Never before has his native city seemed so radiant, so majestic, so inspiring, so heaven-endowed. Returning from travels through the civilized world, he realizes beyond all cavil and peradventure that in art, in feats of arms, in intellect, Greece is preeminent. And Greece is led by Attica, while Attica is ruled by Athens, the mistress of the world.
Was Plato A Collectivist? The aging philosopher eventually managed to return to athens, but only after considerablepersonal 4 The story is reported by Socrates in the theaetetus, 174. http://www.libertyhaven.com/theoreticalorphilosophicalissues/economichistory/pla
Extractions: Books Magazines Music Maps Out of Print Books British Books British Magazines British Music Keywords: Ideas have consequences, the late Richard Weaver was fond of reminding us; it is an argument dear to the heart of every student of liberty. And no ideas have so permeated Western intellectual history as have those of Plato. Indeed, the whole history of Western thought, as Alfred North Whitehead suggested a few years ago, may be seen as a series of footnotes to Plato. It is, consequently, much to the embarrassment of many individualists that Plato is frequently claimed by collectivists as one of their own. The claim is doubly discomforting because individualists are inclined to give much weight in their world-views to the place of tradition and ideas. The simple truth is that individualists yield Plato to the collectivist ranks all too acquiescently. The Plato known to most men, of course, is the author of the Republic, with his utopian proposals for a strictly regulated society under the benevolent mailed fist of a single philosopher-king. The society depicted in this book is truly a far different thing from that envisioned by lovers of individual liberty. Such liberty is sacrificed in the Republic, as in every slave society since, for the sake of an alleged greater communal welfare. But there is another Plato, less well known. The Republic was a comparatively early work; Plato's growth was hardly arrested at this stage. Perhaps his last completed work is the Seventh Letter, in certain ways a much more significant document than even the Republic. This epistle was written in 353352 B.C., when Plato was about 75 years old, to the relatives and comrades of his own friend and former pupil, Dion of Syracuse. The letter, in reply to a request for aid in avenging the assassination of Dion, is an extended apologia pro vita sua, a spiritual autobiography in which the old man, now only five or six years from death, surveys in retrospect his long life.
Extractions: Possible date of the Sulvasutras (religious writings showing acquaintance with Pythagorean numbers and with geometric constructions); appearance of Chinese rod numerals Battle of Thermopylae. Beginning of Age of Pericles Parmenides (sphericity of the earth). Zeno paradoxes of motion Hippocrates of Chios (reduction of the duplication problem, Tunes, arrangement of the propositions of geometry in a scientific fashion); Anaxagoras (geometry). Antiphon (method of exhaustion). Plague at Athens Hippias of Elis trisection of angles with quadratrix); Theodorus of Cyrene (irrational numbers); Socrates Democritus (atomistic theory). Athens finally defeated by Sparta. Archytas (leader of Pythagorean school at Tarentum, applications of mathematics to mechanics). Death of Socrates Plato (mathematics in the training of the mind, Plato's Academy Theaetetus (incommensurables, regular solids).
Peter Fosl's Philosophical Chronology defeated (413) Plague in athens (430 429 BCE) Plato (c 428/7 - 347 BCE)(foundsAcademy 387 BCE) Archytas of Tarentum (Plato's contemporary) theaetetus (c 414 http://www.transy.edu/homepages/philosophy/chronology.html
Extractions: s s Big Bang postulated (15-16 billion years ago) Formation of the Earth (c 4,500,000,000 years ago) Precambrian Age (4,000,000,000 - 540,000,000 y.a., origin of life [Archeaozoic era] thought to be 4 billion y.a.) Earliest known life in fossil record (c 3,500,000,000 y.a.) Paleozoic Age (540,000,000 - 200,000,000 y.a.) (insects, chondrichthyes, amphibians, reptiles, plants except angiospermae) Mesozoic Age (200,000,000 - 60, 000,000 y.a.) (bony fish, birds, mammals, angiospermae) Dinosaurs become extinct (c 65,000,000 y.a.) Cenozoic Age begins (60,000,000 y.a.) Australopithecus (2,600,000 y.a.) Pleistocene Era (2,000,000 - 10,000 y.a., development of hominids) Appearance of homo sapiens (c 200,000 BCE) Earliest known artwork (c 29,000 BCE) (Willendorf Venus; painted blocks of La Ferrassie)
Penguin Classics 'T' Books Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Gentlemen of Verona theaetetus Theogony; Works byTennessee Thus Spoke Zarathustra Timaeus and Critias Timon of athens Timon of http://us.penguinclassics.com/Home/NoFrameAllBooks/0,1023,10_T,00.html
