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To: gamesmistress who wrote (21267)	7/30/2012 2:22:59 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 85487

The ancient Greeks embraced science, but after Greece fell the church's, both Christian and Muslim killed and imprisoned people for heresy and most scientific knowldge the Greeks had discoverd was lost for over 1500 years. Ancient Greeks had figured out the earth was round and measured it to within 25 miles. No one was free to speak their mind. Especially women! Talk about a lack of freedom. The ancient Greeks encouraged folks to discuss ideas and it was called the Socratic method: The Socratic Method Socrates (470-399 BC) was a Greek philosopher who, despite being considered one of the greatest and most important philosophers who ever lived, left no writings at all. Most of what we know about his life and work comes from the writings of his disciples, Xenophon and Plato. He lived during a period of transition in the Greek empire, and after the Peloponnesian War, he was tried, convicted, and executed for corrupting the young. Socrates engaged in questioning of his students in an unending search for truth. He sought to get to the foundations of his students' and colleagues' views by asking continual questions until a contradiction was exposed, thus proving the fallacy of the initial assumption. This became known as the Socratic Method, and may be Socrates' most enduring contribution to philosophy. law.uchicago.edu