PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Upanishads, Søren Kierkegaard, Arun Shourie

• School: Brock University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1F90
• Professor: Richard Brown

Document Summary

Phil 1f90 - lecture 2 - brief timeline of philosophers. Responsible for the birth of western culture and civilization. Pre-pre-socratics -> pre-socratics -> socrates -> plato -> aristotle -> neo-platonists -> Mythological thinking, the gods/the supernatural are the rational behind natural phenomena. All philosophers prior to socrates are called pre-socratics. Non-mythological thinking, instead try to use an early form of science. Arche is water, everything is reducible to water. Others would say the 4 elements or other more general forces. Charged with corrupting the youth, worshipping false gods, and sentenced to die. Early natural philosopher and natural scientist, never recorded his works. Recorded what socrates said, and also used socrates as a character in his dialogues. All philosophy is a footnote to plato - a. n. Plato turned upside down, influence lasted until the 19th century. Descartes, father of modern philosophy (modern = november 10th, 1617) Epistemology is the bedrock of philosophy, not metaphysics as the greeks thought.