Chapter 1.1 Note Taking Study Guide

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Chapter 1.1 Note Taking Study Guide

• The Greek Roots of Democracy

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Solon

• Made many needed reforms
• Opened offices to more citizens
• Gave Athenian assembly more say in decisions

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Pisistratus

• Seized power by force.
• Gave farmers and poor citizens the right to vote.
• Weakened the aristocracy.

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Cleisthenes

• Broadened the role of ordinary citizens in
  government.
• Set up the council of 500.
• Made the assembly a genuine legislature.

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Pericles

• Led a thriving economy and a more democratic
  government.
• Believed that all male citizens-regardless of
  wealth or social class-should take part in
  government.
• Stressed the rights and duties of individuals as
  citizens of a democracy.

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Pericles

• Expressed the earliest and greatest democratic
  ideals in his Funeral Oration.

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Socrates

• Questioned his fellow citizens about their
  beliefs.
• Used a process we call the Socratic Method.
• Believed the unexamined life was not worth
  living.

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Plato

• Student of Socrates.
• Set up his own school in Athens.
• Believed reason led to genuine knowledge.
• Described his vision of an ideal state in The
  Republic.

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Plato

• Rejected Athenian democracy.
• Believed the state should regulate citizens
  lives.

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Aristotle

• Was Platos most famous student.
• Tutor to Alexander the Great.
• Favored a constitutional government ruled by the
  middle class.
• Believed the city-state represented the best form
  of human community.

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Aristotle

• Believed that good conduct meant pursuing the
  golden mean.
• Promoted reason as the guiding force for
  learning.
• Set up a school for the study of all branches of
  knowledge.