• Greece established democracy for the first time in history 
  • Aristotle was a student of Plato at the Academy
  • he helped foster the idea of Athens as an intellectual destination
  • his school - the Lyceum - focused on cooperative research - building on knowledge gathered from all over the world 
  • not exactly, but he did dream of having the sum of mankind’s knowledge easily accessed in one location


    • he wrote extensively on such topics as…
      • logic physics biology 
      • ethics politics rhetoric
      • motion theatre poetry
      • metaphysics psychology dreams

    • he also tutored Alexander the Great
    • Athens in the 5th to 4th century BCE had an extraordinary system of government: democracy. 
    • Under this system, all male citizens had equal political rights, freedom of speech, and the opportunity to participate directly in the political arena.

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