CLAS 1000H Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Erechtheion, Phidias, Relativism
7 Dec 2016
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Heraclitus- ionian greek thinker, more well-known than his predecessors and known for criticizing previous ideas of the world. Logos- divine intelligence that motivates the world, never-ending flux, all-consuming (concept by heraclitus) Anaxagoras- transitional thinker in ionia, friend to pericles. Ideas of where things come from- unity, everything was together. Nous- pure mind, concept from anaxagoras about the division of the world from initial unity caused by this idea of mind. Parmenides- thinker on the island samos (elea), similar to heraclitus but opposite, thinks world never changes and we are fooled to think otherwise. Zeno- follower of parmenides, expanded on his ideas of an unchanging world in which the senses fool us to think otherwise. Paradoxes of zeno- attempt to prove that movement is an illusion, half to infinity paradox. Pluralists- no one thing from which the many derive, world is made of many things. Empedocles- politician and athlete in south sicily, created dialogue with pythagoras and.
