CLST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hippocrates, Middle Ages, Connect Four
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Physics in antiquity: we shall do well in believing on the testimony of wise men , how the world came into existence. Aristotle: student of plato, disagrees with everything he says and starts his own school. Account: the creator made this world of generation . Really easily reconcilable with christian belief in the middle ages. Generation = things come into existence: he desired that all things should be as like himself as they could be . Problem with that: in ancient greece, like and likely : like = one thing is like another, moves between probability and similarity. Thursday, september 22, 2016: called timaeus based of of the main character. Likeness of what animal did the creator make the world? : has to have an idea in his head, has to be copying an idea. Nothing can be beautiful which is like any imperfect things .