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Aristotle Koskinas on Greek History

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Socrates and Aristotle

During the sixth er and early fifth century b c, philosophers who were particularly active in cities such as militus or pesus started researching the origins of nature. They were looking how theywr what the world is made of? Is it air, fire, soils, a combination of all that? What happens when these elements come into into conflict? And all that with socratus. This socrates, or at least the socrates we know through the writings of plato, because socrates never wrote anything so personall. I think that plato used, used socrates as his own mouth. He hassai, 30 percent real socrates and 70 % play later. Yes.

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