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Socrates was credited for giving Greek philosophy a new direction. He is known through the writings of his student Plato; due to Socrates writing nothing during his life in 5th century B.C. The Sophists were the group of internment teachers that provided the intellectual matrix that produced Socrates. Socrates wanted to teach people to think. He wanted to prove how there are different sides to an argument.

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Socrates was if not, the most important thinker of ancient Greece.

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Many people did not accept Socrates teachings. He was put to death on charges of atheism and corrupting the young. (There was no place for traditional Greek religion during this time, though it would be inaccurate to call them atheist). After his execution many of his disciples including Plato left Athens for safety. They traveled to the neighboring state, Megara.

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Many people of ancient Greece did not accept Socrates teachings.

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In Ancient Greece slaves were around. They made many sacrifices to stay alive. One thing they had to go through was getting their hair cut off before they ever started working for a master. They usually never saw their families again and were treated horribly. Slaves didn’t have any say in their life. Only their masters controlled it.

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Slavery in Ancient Greece was very rough and grueling.

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Working as a slave in Ancient Greece wasn’t fun at all. Instead of taking care of their kids they had to take care of their master’s kids. Young girls were worst off because they were entertainment for men at drinking parties. Really young slave kids in Greece worked ten hour shifts in black crawl- tunnels with bad ventilation. Men didn’t work because they were mostly killed off in war if not they were put into slavery.

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African Americans were put into slavery after the war.

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In Miletus, located on the southwest coastline of modern day Turkey and was the most important of all Ionian cities. It was there that Thales had the intuition that a single substance underlay everything in the world. His hypothesis was that the substance was water. His disciple Anaximander in turn suggested that the substance was indefinite. His follower, Anaximenes in turn suggested that the substance was air. This began the thought of different sides- to the same argument.

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Greek philosophy began with speculation in the region of Ionia.

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Socrates has a huge impact on philosophy in ancient Greece and eventually throughout the western civilization. Socrates taught people how to think, and wanted to prove how there are different sides to an argument- and in the long run did prove exactly that. The Greeks created a body of literature and philosophy whose impact still endures the 21st century. By his example, philosophy was turned away from it’s prior emphasis on natural science and became more toward a question of ethics.

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Socrates is known for landmark importance in Western thought.

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Even though slaves did all the work they got paid very little. They had many jobs and never got a break. Even after their owner died, the owner had the choice to pass the slave down to his son or free the slave to find more work. Women were house hold slaves. They had to do lots of jobs for the wife such as getting water for her, doing the wife’s hair, even shading the wife as she walks through the streets so she’s not to hot.

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Doing work for a slave was not far in any way, even their kids had to work.

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Slaves were never treated with any respect. If they were asked for it was because they were going to have to do more work. During this time the master would feed, give food and shelter to the slave just like a pet. Slave women even had to wool things and if they messed up they would have to undo the wool which took all night. While the masters would go out the slave would even have to get fire wood without help.

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If you were a slave in Ancient Greece you had no respect and you were always doing work.

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Slaves were not educated so anything the master told them they thought it was true. Even though they weren’t educated they knew it wasn’t right for just them to scrub floors for hours. Then when they are done with that there is whole list of things still to do. Greeks thought as slaves as a living tool. Even when the slaves were cleaning they were responsible for watching the children and making sure they aren’t trying to hurt themselves.

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Slaves had no rights to do anything they were just their to work all day and night.

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Socrates teachings are still being taught even in today’s world. Socrates is known for creating a whole line of intellectual philosophers who followed after him. Like his student Plato whom taught Aristotle who taught Alexander the Great (who became a king of Macedon). Socrates is the reason we are able to think ‘outside of the box’ and that there are different sides to an argument to take into consideration. This developed into a Socratic discussion in which there are no wrong answers but opposing viewpoints based on asking and answering questions based on critical thinking.

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Socrates teachings are still being taught in today’s world

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After Socrates example, ethics became known as moral philosophy. It became a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The term comes from the Greek word ethos.

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Socrates believed in talking philosophy particularly about ethics.