Greek Legacy Classical Origins of the Modern World

The Invention of Scholarship (1x3)

Uitzenddatum: Jan 15, 2015

Plato's Academy was the school that first established the essential character of scholarly inquiry. Socrates and his students, Plato among them, were not content with perfecting clever argumentative devices, nor did they rely on any "sacred text" whose deeper meaning summoned the assembly. Rather, it was the examined life that provided the subject matter for those who committed themselves to following the light of reason.