Socrates- The Questioner
He taught by asking questions instead of giving answers.
Who is Socrates?
He was the most famous student of Socrates.
Who is Plato?
This student of Plato believed in observing the world directly to learn about it.
Who is Aristotle?
He believed diseases had natural causes—not punishments from the gods.
Who is Hippocrates?
This questioning method developed by Socrates is used in classrooms and law schools.
What is the Socratic Method?
This method of teaching, named after Socrates, is still used in classrooms today.
What is the Socratic Method?
Plato founded this early university, one of the first in the Western world.
What is the Academy?
Aristotle created an early system for organizing and naming these living things.
What are plants and animals?
Hippocrates is called the “Father” of this field of study.
What is medicine?
Plato’s book The Republic still impacts discussions about this quality of leaders.
What is good leadership (or justice)?
Socrates was put on trial in Athens for “corrupting” these people.
Who are the youth?
This famous idea by Plato describes people trapped in ignorance, only seeing shadows.
What is the Allegory of the Cave?
His ideas helped form the basis of this method used by scientists today.
What is the scientific method?
This famous oath guides doctors to protect patients and do no harm.
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
Aristotle’s work helped create these modern sciences.
What are biology and physics?
Socrates encouraged everyone to seek this—something he valued above everything else.
What is truth (or knowledge)?
Plato’s book on government and justice, still studied today in political science classes.
What is The Republic?
Aristotle invented a step-by-step way of thinking that helps people make good arguments.
What is logic?
Hippocrates encouraged doctors to rely on this—careful facts and observations.
What is evidence?
Hippocrates changed medicine by teaching doctors to look for these causes of diseases.
What are natural causes?
Instead of running away from punishment, Socrates accepted his sentence and drank this.
What is poison?
According to Plato, the best rulers would be these wise leaders.
Who are philosopher-kings?
Aristotle’s work influenced these fields of study, including biology, physics, and logic.
What is science? (or “What are science and medicine?”)
A modern version of this is still recited by doctors today after medical school.
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
All four Greek thinkers remind us that this search is one of the most important parts of being human.
What is the search for knowledge?