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Agora: (in ancient Greece) a public open space used for assemblies and markets.
Polis: a city state in ancient Greece, especially as considered in its ideal form for philosophical purposes.
Political entities ruled by their bodies of citizens, origin of the word politics, metropolitan, poll.
508 BC: Athenian democracy in the city of Athens is established under Cleisthenes following the tyranny of Hippias.
First time in recorded history people had ever revolted against their rulers.
Socrates: a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
The death of Socrates: An oil on canvas painted by French painter Jacques-Louis David in 1787. The painting focuses on a classical subject like many of his works from that decade, in this story, Socrates has been convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens and introducing strange gods, and has been sentenced to die by drinking poison hemlock. Socrates uses his death as a final lesson for his pupils rather than fleeing when the opportunity arises, and faces it calmly.
The Socratic method: also known as method of Elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate, is a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions.
Ancient Greek meaning of 'Idiot': A person who didn't vote was marked as an idiot because they were too self-centered.
*all information came from wikipedia and historydisclosure.com*
Polis: a city state in ancient Greece, especially as considered in its ideal form for philosophical purposes.
Political entities ruled by their bodies of citizens, origin of the word politics, metropolitan, poll.
508 BC: Athenian democracy in the city of Athens is established under Cleisthenes following the tyranny of Hippias.
First time in recorded history people had ever revolted against their rulers.
Socrates: a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
The death of Socrates: An oil on canvas painted by French painter Jacques-Louis David in 1787. The painting focuses on a classical subject like many of his works from that decade, in this story, Socrates has been convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens and introducing strange gods, and has been sentenced to die by drinking poison hemlock. Socrates uses his death as a final lesson for his pupils rather than fleeing when the opportunity arises, and faces it calmly.
The Socratic method: also known as method of Elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate, is a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions.
Ancient Greek meaning of 'Idiot': A person who didn't vote was marked as an idiot because they were too self-centered.
*all information came from wikipedia and historydisclosure.com*
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