PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hellenistic Philosophy, Greek Mythology, Anaximander
15 Dec 2017
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Socrates: 600-500bc: pre-socratic philosophy, 470-320 bc: classical philosophy, socrates, plato, aristotle - in athens, 300-100 bc: hellenistic philosophy, epicureans, cynics, stoics. First reading: euthyphro: priest in athens, socrates meets this man on the way to his execution, charges against socrates, perverting the youth. This brings us back to the rst question, the nature of piety: christianity can answer: there is only one god, piety is a re ection of god in human action. There can be no true pious action in this life, god alone can be completely pious because he is god, and to be pious is to be christ-like - something that god loves. Ionia, a colony off the western coast of what is now turkey. 1: miletus was an in uential city at the very beginning of the philosophical age, greek words, arche - principle, meaning both origin and cause, the word describing creation, big question: what is the arche, phusis - nature.
