Pythagoras, Plato, And Aristotle: The Major Contributions By The Greek Invention Of Philosophy

The major contributions that were made to civilization by the Greek invention of Philosophy were mainly by four people: Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. In Science, Pythagoras made huge advancements/contributions to mathematics and astronomy. For example, Pythagoras created the “Pythagorean Theorem”. All the Western thoughts came from the Greek thinkers themselves who were: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Everything that they taught to people were contributions to every aspect of life.

The word philosophy means “love of wisdom”. From the 6th century B.C.E., through the 4th century B.C.E, the Greek thinkers in the Hellenic world, started answering a variety of questions about the nature of their universe and the meaning of life. …show more content…
He was born in Athens in 469 B.C.E. He had enough income so that he would not have to teach for a living. He was an intense patriot who believed that the Athens were debased, by what he considered to be shameful principles of the Sophists. He was put to death by his own countrymen. People came to the realization that Socrates was a threat to their state, and then they punished him to his death on a charge of “corrupting the youth and introducing new gods”. His friends had made arrangements for him to leave, but instead he decided to accept the popular judgement and died peacefully, drinking a cup of poison. One of Socrates students that he taught was Plato. According to Plato, Socrates looked like a goatman, but spoke like a God. The first thing that Socrates wished was to have all inherited beliefs re-examined. He realized that the people who went around thinking they knew everything, really did not know a thing. Socrates was the smartest person in the world and he agreed greatly with that. Everyone had thought Socrates knew something, but he was smarter because he knew he did not know anything. The second thing that Socrates wished was to build a monument of the rigid truth, by means of applying sound definitions. People went around using the words justice, love, and devotion without truly knowing what the words had meant. One would have to establish the word …show more content…
He also built a system that would offer the positive groundwork of truth and reality itself. He was born around 429 B.C.E. in Athens. He had became one of Socrates students and later watched him as he was punished to death. Plato worked on assembling a philosophical system based on similar Socratic teachings. He did this by teaching at the Academy school in Athens. He wrote a series of dialogues as if Socrates was the main speaker. Some great works of literature and the earliest forms of philosophy included works from Plato such as: Platonic Dialogues, Phaedo, Symposium, and Republic. He knew he had to show a groundwork for ethics, in order to avoid all the skeptics out there. He accomplished this by the “Doctrine of Ideas.” He had mentioned that change and relatively are huge characteristics of the way we see the world with our senses, but then he denied that the world was the entire universe. He mentioned that there were spiritual realms that the mind could grasps. The ideas that were made did have a real existence. Each was a pattern of some class of objects or relations between the objects on earth. There are ideas such as: chair, tree, shape, color, proportion, beauty, and justice. The highest was the idea of good, because it was the cause guiding purposes of the universe. The things that we take in through our senses are flawed copies of realities and ideas, relating to them as shadows related to