BESOR Unit 1 - Act 1

  • Socrates
    469 BCE

    Socrates

  • Period: 469 BCE to 399 BCE

    Socrates

    Socrates was an Athenian Philosopher whose questions
    and opinions clashed with the current course of Athenian
    politics and society. Socrates worked to critically examine
    the foundational beliefs that were common in Greece during
    his time, and encouraged other citizens to do so as well.
  • Plato
    428 BCE

    Plato

  • Period: 428 BCE to 348 BCE

    Plato

    Plato ranks among the greatest philosophers of
    the world, and is viewed by many scholars as the
    most important Philosopher of Western civilization.

    Plato held that moral values are objective in the sense
    that they exist in a spirit-like realm beyond subjective
    human conventions. Plato’s main concern is to challenge the views most people have about goodness, for it is here that they go disastrously wrong in trying to live happy lives.
    (Racelis, 2017)
  • Aristotle
    384 BCE

    Aristotle

  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle

    In Arabic Philosophy, he was known simply as “The First
    Teacher;” in the West, he was “The Philosopher.”

    The ethics of Aristotle is concerned with action, not as
    being right in itself irrespective of any other consideration, but
    with actions conducive to man’s good. Aristotle sets himself
    to discover what this good is and what the science
    corresponding to it is. (Copleston, 1993). Aristotle argued that virtues are good habits that we acquire, which regulate our
    emotions.