PHI 1104 Lecture 2: Lecture 2, Jan 11 (Janice)
23 Feb 2016
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Sort of like the big bang theory. Homer: the iliad (time in the distant past), the odyssey. They thought that the gods spoke through these poets. The great poets, homer and hesiod, were understood to have written under divine inspiration. They sung of the intermingled deeds of men and gods. They told of past times when an ideal human type was established and great deeds were done: all subsequent doings measured against that time. Greeks looked to homer and hesiod to learn about the gods and for instruction in how to live examples of gods and heroes. Men: vulnerable, mortal, fragile, subject to constant change: born, grow, age, die. Reason human faculty that we do on our own right to question and disagree. All that exists is material of physical. When we experience the world, we encounter a manifold of individual things. Dogs, cats, houses, tables and chairs . The ultimate principle for thales was water.
