Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, the three brightest stars in the dark sky of Western philosophy, are all clustered together in a few decades in the fourth century BC. The final question for this class (Dec. 6-12) is, Why? What happened in the ClassicalPeriod of philosophy?
To answer that, we will first ask three preliminary questions:
What was SoCrates really up to? (September 13-Oct. 6) Check out my first posting.
Did PlatO complete Socrates, or betray him? (Oct. 11-Nov. 3)
How did AriStotle react? (Nov. 8-Dec. 1)
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