T
he Golden Age of Greece was from 450 to 322 BC. During this period there were many outstanding thinkers, writers and theoreticians who exerted a great influence on Western history.
Among the great minds that lived during this period three names stand out – Socrates (469-399 BC), his student Plato (427-347), and Aristotle (383-322 BC) who in turn was taught by Plato. Socrates was a witty orator and a brilliant philosopher and many considered him be the father of Western Philosophy.
Socrates theorized that an ideal government was made up of wise men ruling for the general welfare of society. Plato elaborated these ideas in his book ‘The Republic’. Aristotle studied medicine along with philosophy and he bought a method to the study of the relation between man and other aspects of the world in which he lived. Alexander the Great was taught by Aristotle. Along with other great scholars who lived during the Golden Age, these three were largely responsible for formulating the basic of modern Western culture.
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