CLASSIC 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Anaximander, The Ethiopians, Sophist
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Quiz on thursday: socratic philosophers and aristotle"s theory of tragedy. In the best tragedies, peripeteia coincides with anagnorisis (recognition, insight of the flaw) Tragedies cause catharsis (purging) and elicit pity (eleos) and fear (phobos) Plato, republic: no tragedies in the ideal city. Aristotle, poetics: tragedies purge emotions (catharsis) rehabilitates tragedy. English hubris": pride, arrogance, overconfidence, behavior that offends the gods. Greek hubris": intentionally dishonoring behavior (male, infliction of violence by a superior to shame the victim (male, (inferior: woman, child, slave) insolence of an inferior, one who disobeys/acts independently. English meaning of hubris based on old fashioned, outdated interpretations of. One element is the origin of all things. Thales of miletus (predicted an eclipse in 585bc: the 1st element was water. Anaximander of miletus (pupil of thales: the 1st element was limitless and undefined, none of the four original elements were as important as the abstract.
