What Have The Greeks Ever Done For Us?

Sam was poking around some crates of old books, and found an ancient in-class assignment from my dead Greek philosophers course, written in psycho killer scrawl:

What the Greeks gave us:

• The Olympics
• Concept of Democracy
• roots for a bunch of words
• logic
• science in general
• the beginnings of atomic theory
• some woefully incorrect notions about Man's dental condition (Aristotle: men have more teeth than women) [got a smiley for that one]
• catharsis
• classes which philo majors must take (their greatest contribution in history, I might add) [another smiley]
• Socratic method

It was, I admit, one of my least favorite classes--loved the prof, but just never warmed to these guys despite my understanding that we're indebted to them for a lot:

I always had more of an affinity for dead German philosophers.  Anyway, thanks Sam, for the reminder from many lifetimes ago...

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