The statements of famous philosophers of antiquity and today amaze with their depth. In their free time, the ancient Greeks pondered the patterns of development of society and nature, as well as the place of man in the world. Such famous philosophers as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle created a special method of cognition, which is used in our time in all sciences. Therefore, every educated person today should definitely understand the main ideas that these great thinkers put forward.
Famous ancient Greek philosophers became actually the founders of all sciences, having developed their theoretical foundations. Harmony and beauty are the basis of any of their reasoning. That is why the Greeks, unlike their Egyptian counterparts, sought to deal exclusively with theory, fearing that practice would destroy the elegance and clarity of the conclusions.
The famous philosophers of Ancient Greece are primarily Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. It is from them that one must begin the study of the development of methods for the search for truth. These famous philosophers created fundamental principles that have already been directly developed in the work of their colleagues, including our contemporaries. Let's consider each of them in more detail.
Socrates is the founder of the dialectical method of searching and knowing the truth. His most important principle was the belief in the comprehensibility of the surrounding world through self-knowledge. According to Socrates, a smart person is not capable of bad deeds, so knowledge in the ethics he created is equal to virtue. He expressed all his thoughts to his students orally in the form of a conversation. Dissenters could always express their opinion, but the teacher almost always managed to convince them to admit the incorrectness of their positions, and then the validity of his views, because Socrates is also the founder of a special, “Socratic” method of dispute. Interestingly, Socrates did not agree with the basic principles of Greek democracy, because he believed that a person who does not engage in political activity has no right to talk about it.
All modern famous idealist philosophers rely primarily on the teachings of Plato. Unlike Socrates, for him the world that surrounds us was not an objective reality. Things are only a reflection of eternal and unchanging prototypes. beauty forPlato is a peculiar idea, which has no main characteristics, but which a person feels at special moments of inspiration. All these provisions are well stated in such works as "The State", "Phaedrus" and "Feast".
Aristotle, known as the educator of the great commander Alexander the Great, although he was a student of Plato, he fundamentally disagreed with his views on the nature of things. Beauty for him is an objective property that can be inherent in certain things. It lies in the symmetry and harmony of proportions. That is why Aristotle pays great attention to mathematics. But the real ancestor of this science, of course, was Pythagoras.
