Short Biographies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

    Socrates was a philosopher who was born in 469 B.C., and died in 399 B.C. He wrote nothing down, even though he had brilliant ideas. He thought that knowledge was a living, interactive thing, and it was this reason that kept him from recording any information. He would question people on positions that they thought very strongly about, and in the end he would be able to convince them that their original idea was wrong. He was bitterly resented by the Athenians; they thought of him as a Sophist.
    Plato was born in 429 B.C., and died in 347 B.C. He was an Athenian citizen of high status, and was an incredible writer. He studied under Socrates, and wrote down many of the things that Socrates did not. he was also referred to as a philosopher.
   Aristotle was born in 384 B.C., in the Greek colony of Stagirius. His father died when he was very young, and he stayed with his guardian, Proxenus. Proxenus sent him to Athens, where Aristotle studied under Plato. After studying under Plato for twenty years, Aristotle started to lecture on his own, mostly questions on the subject of rhetoric. When he was invited to live with a friend in Hermeas, he accepted, meeting two women, one of which would give birth to Aristotle's son. When Hermeas was overtaken by the Persians, he fled to Mylentine, where he would stay for a while, tutoring Alexander, the son of Philip of Macedonia. When his work was finished, he returned to Athens. Aristotle finally died in 322 B.C.
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3. "Aristotle (384-322 BCE): Overview [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]." UTM.edu - The University of Tennessee at Martin. Web. 26 Feb. 2010. . 
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