Notes of Exclence and Socrates

Elbert Green Hubbard ----> A message to Garcia in 1899

Spanish-American war.

Rowen was asked by the 25th president of America William McKinley to send a message to the leader of Cuban Revolutionary, Garcia.

The tallest mountain in North America was (re)named of McKinley until 2015, now it is called Denali

Translated into 37 languages

Sold over 40 million copies

Made into movie twice in 1916 and 1936

Vocab:

missive: a letter, especially a long or an official one

Perihelion: the point where a planet is close to the Sun and the brightest

Slipshod: careless lackadaisical slapdash , reins

imbecility: incapability, feebleness, stupidity

Socrates

508BC----> the birth of Democracy

Socrates was a Stoneman

He just asks a series of question and this led to scientific method, in witch you start out with a hypothesis then set out to prove your theory through experimentation

Socrates was Charged wit two crimes:

corruption of Athens' youth.

impiety not believing in the gods of the state.

He defense:

It's my job to be gadfly to lazy sluggish horse that is Athens

I should actually be rewarded with free dinners for life.

He was voted to death by 500 people

He has a chance to escape but he refused

THE UNMAININED LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING

In Athenian democracy, idiots were born and citizens were made trough education

Declining to take part in public life such as democratic government of the polis, was considered dishonorable.