POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Episteme, Meletus, Eristic
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Pol200 lecture 3 plato; trial and death of. Socrates tried to distinguish himself from the ionian enlightenment people tries to enable people to see where he comes from. Ionian philosophers aka pre-socratic wanted to get away from mythological ways. The ionians distanced themselves from the typical gods believed humans were just like gods. They paid more attention to the natural world. Common characteristics of several pre-socratic philosophers is that the census had unreliable source of information: pre-socratics believe the census can give rise to gnome (opinion, knowledge was called episteme. The aim of philosophy at this point was to get an understanding of reality crucial for plato. Most were not athenian these thinkers moved into athens to teach. Sophists taught among other things the study of episteme ideas of knowledge: also taught language, geometry, astronomy etc. They were known as teachers of redirect (fix) teaching people how to publicly speak: also taught eristic study of arguments.
