Class notes Wednesday

• Imbecility: inability, feebleness
• Stenographer: a person who takes dictation
• Missive: a letter, especially a long or official one
• Ancient Greeks Arete
• Arete: excellence, moral virtue, fulfillment, the act of living to your full potential
• Arete involves all abilities and potential of humans
• the highest human potential knowledge
• "this is what separates us from the dawgs"
• We then discussed things the can't be proved or not it just isn't provable
• Then talked about what Jesuses image and what he most likely looked like
• Agora: a place that people meet to discus important things and have meetings
• Polis: political entities ruled by there bodies of citizens
• 508 BCE was the birth of democracy
• US (1776)
• France (1789)
• China (1985 and 1949)
• Russia (1917)
• Iran (1979)
• Egypt (2011)
• They all had a revolution
• Socrates worked as a stonemason, fought in a war, and this shaped the way he looked at life/world
• He met young students outside the agora
• He had a method of asking a bunch of questions to see there beliefs they had
• This help lead the the scientific method