Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Agora to the Greeks was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states. Polis means Greek city and people went to buy and sell things. Democracy was established and it was the first time ever too happen. Socrates was a 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. In 399 B.C Socrates committed suicide. He was charged with refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state and corrupting the youth and was found guilty and it was charged with the death penalty and they made drink poison. The Socratic method, also known as the method of Elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate, is a form of a cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions. in Ancient Greek, Those who did not contribute to politics and the community were known as “Idiotes”.

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