PHL 603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Callicles, Rational Point, Square Enix Europe
5 May 2016
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Philosophy from the greek who committed to writing it. Changed from natural truth to ethics (from rational point of view good ) Ex. water is arche as everything depends on it. But if the water evaporates, then all is left is the earth so that must be the fundamental principle. The people who thought of these were called the phusikoi nature philosophers (thinkers of the nature world) All is being everything that exists exists and everything that doesn"t exist doesn"t. The world is made up of opposites (you can"t have both at the same time, no death and life, no light and darkness at the same time) Truth (the things must always have been true): - the ultimate reality: being itself must be a permanent state, there is always something, eternal, uncreated, unified, immutable unchanging. Greek believed that the world will go from order to chaos and back to order. Phusis nature (no recourse, no changes, absolute)
