Ancient Greek Theorists

Philosophy comes from the Greek word for “love of wisdom”. Greek philosophy led to historiography, the study of political science and science, and mathematics. A Greek philosopher is a Greek thinker that believes that the human mind could anything and everything. Philosophers were also teachers. Their “students” were called pupils. Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher that believed the universe followed the same laws that governed music. He also thought that all relationship could be shown by numbers. Because he believed that, he developed many new ideas about mathematics. Many people still know him today because of the Pythagorean Theorem, which is still used in geometry today.

Who were the Sophists?
Sophists are ancient Greek professional
teachers. They made a living by teaching others while traveling from city to city. They thought students should use their time to make themselves better. They also taught things like how to win a debate and how to make good political speeches. Sophists did not believe in mythology influencing people. They also completely rejected the idea of absolute wrong and right. They thought that a wrong for one person could be a right for another.

The ideas of Socrates.
Socrates was one of the critics of Sophists. Socrates was an Athenian sculptor, but his true love was philosophy. Socrates left no writings behind, but what we know about him is from his students writings. He believed that there was an absolute truth and that all correct knowledge was within each and every person.