NEW333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hyle, Plotinus, Anagoge
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Long concrete steps and cross glass bridge to go to the door and take a sharp right. Sense of meaning: connection to history and purpose --> turns us into persons in a community of persons. If this sense of history with a kiaros is missing you will likely sense that your life is lacking in meaning. Connection: kairos --> most import turning point is moving from a non person to a person. The claim of christanity is that we need to be reborn again with agape. Groups + pivotal figure in ancient greece(socrates) Use second order thinking and start applying it to understand the natural world. Thales: all is the moist, the loadstone has psyche, everything is filled with gods. Thales is using the distinction between the real world and the everyday world --> Instead of finding out how is responsible based on agents he is analyzing what things are made of --> basic substance(means standing under)
