First, Socrates was to be born out of the three philosophers. In Athens, 469 BC, was when and where it happened. His mother, Phaenarete, which was a midwife. And his father, which was a sculptor. Socrates tried what it, but didn?t like it to much because he was clumsy. Although, it didn?t make him as sad, because he was able to marry and have children.
Socrates thought that he had no special wisdom and was like everyone else. That?s why he didn?t write or design anything. In fact, basically everything that?s on Socrates is what Plato and Xenophon did. He did hold discussions on love politics, poetry, war, ect... Anything that could be held for an understanding so he could build his concept of different topics and so he could gain the wisdom he wanted to achieve. When he was with his students, he would ask questions and invite them to figure it out with him. When one of them would come up with an answer, Socrates would try to find a flaw in the answer. He also believed in self-discovery and not books.
399 BC was when Socrates was brought to court. The reason was that Socrates did not believe in Greek gods. One of his students, Plato, was there to record the trial. Socrates tried to defend himself, but lost and was sentenced to death. Luckily though, a religious festival was going. And the rule was that no one was to be executed. So, Socrates? execution was to be postponed till the festival was over. While Socrates was at the festival, one of his students, and best friend tried to persuade him to leave, but Socrates didn?t. So he was executed in 399 BC, in his own city of birth, Athens.
Second, was Plato. He probably had a more complicated life. He created more works too. He was born in 428 BC and was given the name Aritocies from his parents. His childhood gave him more advantages in doing whatever he wanted because his family was very wealthy. This was because both of them were part of some kind of politicization. During his childhood, he was extremely good at wrestling and won a lot of ribbons. He tried getting into politics, like his parents, but it was boring for him. Until he listened to Socrates for the first time. He thought it was super de duped and wanted to know more and more about it. This left him in Socrates? classes for nine years. For Plato, the nine years went by fast because after the democrats took over, Socrates was executed.
Because of the relationship with Socrates and his classes, Plato was forced to move from Athens. This took twelve years before Plato figured out what he wanted to do. He landed at Megara to learn from a student of Socrates, Euelid. Then after three years, Plato went to study Mathematics from Theodorus. Plato took a brake to go to Sicily, to see Mount Etna. There, he wrote Euthyphron. He also developed the Theory of Ideas. While still on Sicily, Plato met Dion, the brother to King Dionysius. King Dionysius was an army general that thought he was twice a man so he had two wives. He married them both at the same wedding, he even slept with them together in the same room. Plato had heard of a group of people that discussed theories. Plato was determined to be in that circle, so he went to King Dionysius, in hope to impress him so he would let him get in that circle. But King Dionysius didn?t see it that way since they had an argument over philosophy, and he sold Plato as a slave to his birth place. Luckily a friend bought him and gave him enough money to buy a plot of land to build an academy. Once built, he named it, "The Grove of Academe."
Plato?s old friend Dion asked if he would teach King Dionysius?s son Dionysius the Youngster. King Dionysius was dead so it was the perfect time to test his theories. As Dionysius the Youngster grew, Dionysius the Youngster noticed the Plato was very fond of his uncle. So Dionysius the Youngster banished Dion to Athens but said that Plato was not to leave. Later Plato was able to escape to Athens. But Dionysius the Youngster missed his teacher and they?re conversations. So he sent a threat note to Plato that he would burn everything of his uncle?s on Sicily if he did not return. After much consideration, Plato agreed and went back. Dion watched and took care of Plato?s Academe. Plato died at the age of 81 in 387 BC.
AristotleAnd third, was Aristotle. He was born in a town called Stagira. Nicomachus was Aristotle?s father and a Physician. When Aristotle was at the Academy of Athens, he joined Plato?s circle or group at the age of seventeen. For the next twenty years, he stayed at the Academy of Athens so he could listen to Plato?s teachings. But unfortunately, Plato and Aristotle grew differences and Aristotle left his circle.
Although, when he heard Plato was dead, Aristotle went to his ceremony and traveled to Assos in Mysia. There he joined with Xenocrates to Platonists small circle. Aristotle engaged and married Pythias, Hermias the ruler's niece. When Hermias died three years later from Persians, Aristotle and Pythias moved for two years till they settled in Mytilene. He made friends with Theophrastus and they returned to Athens to make a home in the court of Philip. There, Aristotle tutored Alexander, later would later be known as Alexander the Great. After that was over, Aristotle and his wife returned to Athens to open a school called ?The Lyceum.? It was a school that Aristotle, himself, gave lectures to groups of people. He also opened a library that was the size of Alexander the Great?s. While with his wife, they had a daughter named Pythias. During his relationship with has wife, Aristotle was having an affair with a person named Herpyllis. They had a son and called him Nicomachus. During that time Aristotle?s wife died.
In 323 BC, Alexander the Great died and that?s when Athens and other cities went into rebellion. Aristotle was accused of impiety, like Socrates. They prosecuted him by using one of his own hymns he had written against him. He was sentenced to spend time in prison. He then left Athens and went to Chalcis, on Euboea and died in 322 BC. It?s said that he died from stomach illness, but there are some myths about suicide.
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