CLST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Anaximander, Rarefaction
31 Oct 2017
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What to know: know who said certain quotes, dates don"t matter, just know the order that things happen in, secondary readings. Written by modern scholars trying to understand primary sources: if there is an issue discussed in both lecture and text, it is important to know. Really diverse thinkers who happen to all share on characteristic: living before socrates (hence the name, invented to group all of these thinkers together, shared. We don"t have complete texts from most of them: fragments. We have quotations from later authors (aristotle quotes thales and picks out parts as important) We have fragments of some writings from certain authors: try to gure out what makes sense in terms of logical order. Quotes: the magnet has a soul . Thales: the rst humans came fully formed out of a bursting sh . Anaxagoras: the sun is a foot . Heraclitus: the white of the egg is birds" milk .
