PSCI 2301 Lecture 3: Lecture 2
27 Sep 2016
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Spiritual crisis and the athenian globalization" of the mediterranean world. Latin word to weave, texture that protects, each dialogue would have a boundary around it that protects it. When you read a platonic dialogue, you begin on the surface. Everyone has an opinion, and that is on the surface. A man who died at 70 ys old, the year 399, just a year after the peloponnesian war. Sophist (one among many), operated as a teacher in athens. Three accounts of the historical socrates (he did actually exist) We have an account by the play write aristophanes (play, the cloud) Account by xenophon (general, historian) socrates" other star pupil. The cloud paints socrates as a person concerned w/ natural science. Pictured as a man in his laboratory (shack), and all kinds of experiments go around w/ them that have nothing to do w/ humans. Always has his head in the clouds, concerned w/ things that don"t matter.
