SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Counter-Reformation, Purgatory, Blaise Pascal
22 Mar 2018
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Homer"s iliad: the iliad as an explanation of natural phenomena. The role of gods in the homeric world. The odyssey: you evoke supernatural powers in order to explain the natural. Radical transformation in the way people explain the world. Diseases must be given natural explanations, universal natural causes. Treatment must have natural sources, no religious. Element of leisure: that ancient greece is full of class societies, the idea of leisure is that those who are the upper class have a bigger opportunity and more time to think than those of lower class. Political system: democratic, elements of debate and reasoning for those who wanted to attain power. Element two: those who deny or reject natural situations/reasoning. Does(cid:374)(cid:859)t go alo(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith the trinity of greek philosophers. The world gets its order imposed from something on the outside. The demiurge: this explains the relationship between this world and the higher reality.
