Playdough and Aristootle Notes

• Playdough- aristocrat family was kings mom married pericles
• Aristotle
• Plato- watched socrates execution died 347
• left athens through italy and egypt then came back to athens
• founded the academy
• atlantis
• hell
• cavemen faced away from entrance looking at shadows
• desiring-wanted more
• spirited- enjoyed life
• rational- educated

Aristotle

• Desciple plato circa 384-322
• scientific
• personal physician of king of athens (dad)
• moved at 17
• 20 years
• made a teacher
• roamed around and lives in Asia Minor
• Maecedonian King Philip 2
• Taught Alex the Great
• goes back to Athens
• Starts Lyceum Parapetic classes
• Morning class (esoteric) Afternoon (Exoteric)
• Forced out of town
• lives in private house
• students wrote books for him
  
• 170+ texts
• Ethics, Meta Physics
• Believed in Geocentricity
• Pythagorous- soul was trapped in body Aristotle- Detached
• Moral virtues
• Intellectual virtues
• Only achieved by upper classmen
• Women were only good at housework and making babies