PHIL-330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Glaucon, Humanism, James V. Schall
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2)the actual practice of platonic philosophy: what makes the dialogue (main speaker + interlocutors) attractive as a. Philosophy is brought to life you are i(cid:373)(cid:373)ersed i(cid:374) the a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)/ ie the speaker addresses as (cid:862)you(cid:863) A drama, not a declarative treatise; includes themes, imagery, motifs, can prove more interesting to read even in non format? philosophical discussions. A period during which the sophists taught rhetoric: taught how to win arguments in a way in which the. Politi(cid:272)al (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge (cid:449)as also o(cid:272)(cid:272)urri(cid:374)g: (cid:373)a(cid:374)y (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges to the (cid:862)fa(cid:272)e(cid:863) of de(cid:373)o(cid:272)ra(cid:272)y, a(cid:374)d differi(cid:374)g (cid:271)eliefs o(cid:374) what. Whe(cid:374) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s (cid:271)egi(cid:374) to (cid:271)e a(cid:271)le to (cid:862)(cid:272)hoose their truth(cid:863) skepti(cid:272)is(cid:373) (cid:449)ill arise: ie does o(cid:374)e a(cid:272)(cid:272)ept or reje(cid:272)t the. For every philosopher they write within a context even if they make their arguments out of context like descartes does (context often has tones of social debate or is rooted in history) For plato, the context is during a period of radical humanism.
