PHIL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Filial Piety, Ethical Dilemma, Political Philosophy
29 Sep 2015
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Phil 200 - lecture 6 - conflicts of value. The period of socrates, plato, and aristotle was a golden era for classical greek culture in philosophy and for literature and theatre. It included three of the greatest classical playwrights: aeschylus, sophocles, and. Euripides"s play iphigenia at aulis takes place as the greek army is assembling and setting sail towards troy. As they"re leaving, king agamemnon is told by a seer that he has offended the goddess artemis, which dooms their entire campaign against troy. The king must give up the campaign or sacrifice his daughter"s life to appease the goddess. Putting aside our own beliefs, from agamemnon"s point of view what the seer says is taken as truth. Duty as a father to his daughter. Agamemnon, clytemnestra (his wife), and menelaus (helen"s husband) have various exchanges and changes of heart. We are interested in the moral conflict between the two duties.
