CLST 100 Lecture Notes - Dialectic, Herodotus, Miletus
25 Mar 2013
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People used to eat their relatives, but were convinced to burn them instead. He attempted to show the truth using a method known as induction, which is an argument through examples: this method was also known as maieutics. Plato, lakhes, 191a (textbook, 297) we base our knowledge on sokrates from dialogues from plato. He would use dialogue (dialectic) with the pupils, and through this the pupils were able to understand the real truth. He was not paid for his teachings. They understood disease was due to an imbalance of the body, not an intervention of the gods. Hippokrates did not think one medicine should be put in a separate category (sacred disease), as no medicine was hopeless or incurable. It was important to observe all symptoms to get cure and find diagnosis. Hellenes greeks, as greeks did not call themselves greeks. Wrote the peloponnesian war, but it is unfinished.
