Plato and the Idealist to the Empiricist

At the very origin of our ideas of about learning, as well so much else that defines our culture, lies the extraordinary flowering of thought and discovery centred on Athens from the fifth to the second century BC. This episode takes us back to the very earliest group of thinkers this series will cover, the ancient Greeks.

• 1:02 - Introducing the Greeks
• 11:36 - Socrates  (c. 470–399 BC)
• 23:34 -Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC)
• 34:06 - Aristotle (384–322 BC)
• 47:25 - Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
• 53:57 - Euclid (c. 325 - c. 270 BC)
• 57:46 - Archimedes (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
• 1:05:41 - Summing Up

  The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html

• Socrates bit.ly/2FQz0hH
• Plato bit.ly/386Cd96
• Aristotle bit.ly/2tdGUzi
• Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes bit.ly/38hEL46

 

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