Biography of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Socrates was the first of the three other prominent Athenian philosophers.  He fought for Athens in the  Peloponnesian War, but then began to think about the world around him.  There was then a group of men who began listening to his logic and reasoning; however, some Athenians became enraged at his teachings, so he was sentenced to death. 

Plato was another one of the very famous Athenian philosophers who listened to Socrates.  Plato was about thirty years old when Socrates died, and Plato was the one who wrote down most of what he remembered from his speeches.  The information we know now about Socrates was transferred by Plato.

Aristotle was not from Athens like the other two renowned Athenian philosophers.  Aristotle studied that the academy of Plato, but did not become the leader of the academy when Plato died.  Aristotle then became angry, left Athens, and became the tutor of a boy named Alexander, who later became Alexander the Great.  Aristotle was more interested in science than the other two philosophers,  but he wanted to use Socrates' questions to figure out the real world.  "He created a classification system of monarchies, oligarchies, tyrannies,democracies and republics which we still use today" (Carr).










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