CLCV 1002 Lecture : greek march 6th.docx

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7 Mar 2012

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Carleton University

Department

Classical Civilization

Course

CLCV 1002

Professor

C L C V

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Philosophia= love of wisdom, love of pursuit of knowledge. Looking for the arche (materialism), interested in what the matter of the universe is. Wonder how world came to be, wonder how humans came to be and our purpose. 90% of our words in science and medicine come from greek. The pre-socratics: all those who existed before socrates, everything after him influenced by his life and ideas: the milesian school (600 bc on): earliest philosophers in greek world, from miletus. Not teaching a consistent theory, so not real school. Base theories on observation of world around them and belief on power of human reason. Pursuing question of origin of universe applied to those observations. Ex: aristotle thought women had fewer teeth than men because they are smaller than men. Look at world around them and hypothesize on how it functions. This means occasionally they get it wrong (because don t test theories) Don t necessarily agree but bounce off each other.

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Legend has it that the Greek philosopher, Socrates, died after drinking a tea made from hemlock leaves. Coniine, the toxic compound found in hemlock, is calculated to have an LD50 in humans of 10 mg/kg. If we assume Socrates weighed 180 lbs, how many grams of coniine would he have needed to ingest to give a 50% chance of causing his death? If Coniine is about 3.2% by weight of the hemlock leaves, how many grams of hemlock would need to be used to make the tea?

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Intrinsic value vs. Instrumental Value

Philosophy Question: Is wisdom (philosophy) something you value most, which you consider most vital to living a good life?

Is wisdom something mostly intrinsically valuable and so desired solely for its own sake? Or is wisdom also instrumentally valuable and so desired also for the sake of something else you desire/want? If so, what?

Instrumental Value

You value most things instrumentally, that is, as a means to some end. Usually, this is obvious and trivial. For instance, you value a washing machine that works—purely for its useful function, or instrumental value.

Intrinsic Value

There are two notions of intrinsic value. It can be:

Valuable in itself
Valued by someone for its own sake

If something has intrinsic value in the first sense, this means that the universe is somehow a better place for that thing existing or occurring.

Reference

Intrinsic vs. Instrumental Value A Basic Distinction in Moral Philosophy

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