- Democracy feeds into excellence because people want to be heard and have a government that works, which makes the democracy work
Agora: gathering place or marketplace
Polis: Political entities ruled by their bodies of citizens
508 BCE was the birth of democracy and the Ancient Greeks were the first to revolt against their leaders
Socrates
- Being a Stoneman and fighting in wars when he was younger shaped the way Socrates viewed the world.
- Created the Socratic method: ask a series of questions to determine a person's underlying beliefs and the extent of their knowledge
- This led to the scientific method
- The controversy was Athens brought many brilliant thinkers that shared their knowledge, which does not match with the traditional thinking of the Greek Gods
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