who would you say is the most significant person?

Question

Cyrus the Great, Euclid, Alexander the Great, Socrates, Plato or Aristotle?

Answer 1

1.Cyrus came first and is remembered for military conquest and government concepts, including novel-for-the-time tolerance or pluralism. Perhaps he could be considered important in that people there at that time were grappling with becoming citizens of greater entities than their own tribal unions.
2. Then Socrates came along about a hundred years later and established the concept of the objective vs. subjective thinking process of argument. He is remembered for his attempt to find a way for humanity to discern the difference between what is an opinion vs. what is universal reality.
3. Plato was Socrates student and he progressed our understanding basically of what is nature vs. nurture, or, what is universal reality or truth vs. what we are taught to believe is the truth.
4. Aristotle followed Plato and gave us excellent applications of what had been learned from Socrates and Plato. He applied the principles of their clarity of thinking to many sciences, including math.
5. Alexander the Great appeared at around the same time and applied clarity of thought to military strategy and conquest.
6. And, most significantly, also at the same time, Euclid wrote a collection called "Elements" which put it all together into the oldest recorded true form of deductive reasoning which shaped our modern concepts of rational thinking, logic, objective assessment and the scientific method.

Answer 2

Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle and all three of them helped to place the foundations for modern Western Culture. Alexander the Great conquered the whole world in his thirties, spreading the ideas Socrates had laid out in Greece. Cyrus created perhaps the greatest empire until Alexander and then Rome. Euclid laid out the foundations for geometry. Therefore, I place Socrates at the top, for he placed the ideas in the minds of Aristotle, Plato and Alexander who then spread them aroun the world.

Answer 3

None, I think the most signifacant perosnS would be Adam and Eve. Without them (and of Course God but he is not human) there would be on Plato or Aristotle or anyone for that matter.

Answer 4

My favorite is definitely Socrates.

But I fear that Aristotle had far more influence on the history of ideas and philosophy, and through the clout his followers wielded, over the history of the world at large.

Answer 5

None of the above. I never personally knew them so they couldn't have personally affected me. They are nobodys in my universe...

Answer 6

none of the above. i think einstien