Classical Studies 1000 Lecture 1: week 1.docx Midterm 3

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

Document Summary

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. So is philosophy esp. early philosophy. Myth offers a narrative account of reality. Philosophy offers a systematic, apparently logical account of the nature of the world. Apparently : we wouldn"t call it logical, sensible, or reasonable. Quotations (sometimes paraphrases) in later writers ( fragments") Most of the pre-socratics wrote prose, so difficult to distinguish verbatim from paraphrasing. We see pre socratic philosophy thought the filtre of later thought. Pre-socs mainly talked about in the standardized vocabulary of later philosophers, so that it is difficult to reconstruct the terms in which they expressed themselves originally. 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.