CLST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Political Philosophy, Apollonian And Dionysian, Aegisthus
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Value: things we care about; thoughts, symbols feelings we orient to when thinking about ourselves. The final answer to value answers is eudaimonia or flourishing like an acorn growing into an oak tree. Musicianship: translating the score of our value into a composition of life, orchestrate and play off of others" values. Paris of troy judges a beauty contest between the goddesses hera, athena, and. Paris picks aphrodite for love, and she whisks away helen of troy filled with love for paris. Menelaus of sparta and his brother agamemnon (king of greeks) [bronze age context] [high king of many kings] Under agamemnon are achilles (a world of hurt)[achilles" heel] and odysseus (the brains) [his strategy of the trojan horse wins war] Achilles doesn"t want to go to war and neither does odysseus, but knows that immortal renown and kleos will be brought about after distinguishing himself at. Troy, sees this as a path of immortality.
