Class 9/6, Vocabulary from Excellence

In today's class we continued to add onto our notes from yesterday on Excellence. We also reviewed the notes we took as class. We focused heavily on the impact and significance of Socrates in Ancient Greece. Also we looked at how Socrates' methods still shape today's learning.

• I added to my definition agora that it was the center of spiritual, political, and athletic activities. Also that Athens was the best example of an agora. 
• I expanded my definition of polis in that it was ruled by their bodies of citizens
• I also added to the importance of 508 BC is that it was the first time in recorded history that people had revolted against their rulers ever and started a revolution. 
• I learned about Socrates today and the enormous influence he had on the western philosophy 
• Socrates was put on trial, found guilty, and then sentenced to the death penalty, "forced suicide", hemlock poisoning was how he died because he didn't denounce his beliefs. 
•  Socrates created the Socratic Method which is a method of instruction by question and answer used by Socrates in order to obtain from his pupils truths he considered to by all rational beings. 
• Socrates philosophies are the foundation of logic in the western civilization today