Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pythagoras, Modern Greek Enlightenment, Katabasis

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

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Them to us" model is problematic as usual. Mythos to logos the usual version of this model. Myth often interested in the nature of the kosmos. Philosophy offers a systematic, apparently logical account of the nature of the world. Apparently : we wouldn"t call it logical, sensible, or reasonable, but it was to a contemporary audience. Most of the pre-socratics wrote prose, so difficult to distinguish verbatim from paraphrasing. We see pre-socratic philosophy through the filter of later thought. Pre-socratics mainly talked about in the standardised vocabulary of later philosophers, so that is difficult to reconstruct the terms in which they expressed themselves originally. The milesians (on the coast of asia minor) Often called physical" or natural philosophers (the physikoi). Interested in material world in which we live, especially the idea of how it came to be. Development of the idea of the arche (literally the beginning" but in this this sense as.