PHILOS 25A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Xenophanes, Persephone, Atomism
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1. road up and down are the same road: parmenides: logos is a feature of you, a faculty understanding part of nous i. makes a strong appearance/reality distinction, being: is (that is, that which is), necessarily, nonbeing: isn"t, and necessarily is not. Everything is one things because a chair is nonbeing a table, therefore it is nonbeing and so everything is one: plurality change involve non being, non being is unthinkable c. there is only one eternal thing, xenophanes reflection how we know things a, negative argument against anthropomorphism, god as a mind, heraclitus. ) of things? i. ii. iii. arkhe can also mean rule, mastery, hierarchy things = physical world/universe kosmos = order in nature, connotes aesthetic pleasure: material monism one fundamental substance is arkhe, thales origin of things is water, anaximander apeiron, anaximenes arkhe is air necessity of natural processes (law of nature?) is the arkhe i. i.
