PHIL 1F90 Lecture 5: Phil 1F90 Lecture 5
7 Dec 2017
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Suggests looking for cold equation videos online over the break. Plato"s apology is an important work in the history of western culture. Remember joe and his girlfriend athena having a picnic under oak tree, branch killed athena and broke both of joe"s legs = the gods did it. Then came a revolution and the pre-socratics. More reliant on reason, on nous, on just sitting down and trying to think things through rationally. Arche was seeking the bottom line in their effort to understand why things are why they are. Thales came up with water for arche, others said it was the four elements, others said it was indefinite something, others said they did not know what it was. Then there was another revolution in history of philosophy . Was for a long time one of the pre-socratics. Lived in athens for over 70 years with little travel. Fought in peloponnesian war between athens and sparta.
