Socrates Again + Some Questions

In Western Civ today we took notes on the rest of the chapter. This is what I wrote down:

Socrates

• looked to science and logic for explanations of how the world worked 
• Athens was the intellectual place of the world back then
• Socratic method fostered critical thinking 
• "the unexamined life is not worth living" 
• was charged with impiety and corrupting Athens youth
• sentenced to death by hemlock, but before he died admitted to his crimes and said he should have free dinners for life 

Plato 

• student and follower of Socrates 
• Apology meant explanation 
• Plato wrote a book called Apology 
• Republic was his other book that was about Socrates discussion of justice and ideal state, one of the most influential books on philosophy ever written 

Aristotle 

• student of Plato 
• helped foster the idea of Athens as an intellectual destination 
• his school the Lyceum, focused on cooperative research and building a knowledge gathered from all over the world 
• did not invent the internet but liked the idea of all mankinds knowledge being easily accessed in one location 
• wrote extensively on 
• logic, physics, biology 
• ethics, politics, metric 
• motion, theater, poetry 
• metaphysics, psychology, dreams 
• also tutored Alexander the Great

Then our homework was page 139 questions 3-5. 

3. The steps Pericles took to strengthen democracy in Athens was increasing the number of public officials who were paid salaries. This was necessary because it meant now even poor people could serve in government. This led to Athens becoming one of the most democratic governments in history. 

4. The battle strategies of Athens and Sparta in the Peloponnesian War were: 

• Athens 
• attack using the sea and their large fleet 
• avoid land battles 
• Sparta 
• use their large army and nice safe spot to hide from Athens 
• burn Athen's food supply 
• attack from land

5. I think some Athenians found the ideas of Socrates so disturbing because they had never been asked to question themselves or their morals. Athenians didn't know what to do with themselves when told to question their thoughts and their actions. They were also just really confused by the certain viewpoints he had.