Classical Studies 1000 Lecture 18: Lecture 1 Term 2 - Greek Philosophy.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Robert Stanley Brown

Document Summary

Myth often is interested in the nature of the kosmos (e. g. hesiod"s theogony: myth offers a narrative account of reality. Narrative, stories that account for the world: philosophy offers a systematic, apparently logical account of the nature of the world. More facts and critical thinking of the world something with internal coherence and integrity: plato and aristotle set the terms for modern philosophy. Evidence for early greek philosophy: no works survive completely texts lost, quotations in later writers ( fragments", although some wrote poetry, most wrote prose difficult to distinguish the quotation from paraphrase when it is in prose. Aristotle"s metaphysics a is particularly important: we see pre-socratic philosophy through the filter of later thought. The milesians: were active in the 6th cent. The first known philosophers around coast of asia minor: often called physical" or natural philosophers (the physikoi called by aristotle) Interested in a material understanding of the world.