CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Street Trash, Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Eastern Philosophy
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Genealogy represents conceptual, casual or chronological relaionships. Conceptual ields: strife bore painful toil, neglect starvaion, tearful pain, batles, combats, bloodshed, and slaughter, quarrels, lies, pretences, and arguments. Other explanaions for natural and social phenomena: zeus creates women and old age. (cid:2) (cid:2) Many tomes one man"s wickedness ruins a whole city. The road towards righteousness is the beter passage: rights gets the upper hand over violence in the end. Close among men there are immortals taking notes of all those who alict each other with crooked judgements. (cid:2) (cid:2) Like hesiod, project is to explain the nature of things such as humans, gods, universe. They are concerned with the natural world physis, the natural world, theories oten reduce mater to a single element. Like hesiod, inluenced by eastern philosophy, cosmology, science, cuing edge came from outside mainland greece. Original wriings are very fragmentary, doctrines diicult to decipher. Unlike hesiod, tend to be very iconoclasic.
