Biographies on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Socrates: Socrates was a great philosopher of Classical Greece, and is credited as one of the founder of western philosophy. He is only known through his pupils, including Plato. Socrates has become renowned for his contributions to the field of ethics, and Socrates also came up with the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus. This remains a commonly used tool. In this series of questions are asked not only to draw individual answers, but to draw out an overall insight on the main issue. Socrates also made important contributions to the fields of epistemology and logic, and the influence of his ideas made a lasting impression on all the western philosophy that followed.

Plato: Plato was a pupil of Socrates and is one of the main reasons that we know about Socrates through the writings of Plato. He was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato made many contributions to the fields of natural philosophy, science, and Western philosophy.

Aristotle: Aristotle was the pupil of Plato. Aristotle was also the mentor of Alexander the Great, the great leader of Macedon. Throughout his life, Aristotle had many writings. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic. He teachings extended well into the Renaissance, and some were just confirmed in the 19th century as accurate. Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates were all important founding fathers of western philosophy.

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