HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Meritocracy, Aristocracy, Fatalism
6 Dec 2016
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Relationship between sensory experience & internal intuition in determining reality. Promise of monism: underpinning all, heart of all reality: underlying reality of universe fire, water, everything. Plato tries to solve the problem, point to this. Defined relationship between sensory experience & reasoning. Underpinning of ethics, morality, search truth, reality. Figure sensory experience good and moral life, good person. Athenian democracy: tyrants, personal and direct democracy, corrupt: wisdom is virtuous, did not work to ideals. Advisor to syracuse, dionysius ii: regimen pleasures & excesses as highest good: how can philosophy benefit society, politics, king has absolute power, does not care about philosophy, tyrant. True knowledge/reality derive from the permanent, unchangeable. Moves beyond thales" water & heraclitus" fire and melissus" what is . Dual worlds: material and intellectual: material world: change & impermanence, experienced by body senses. Change, dies, impermanent, cannot be true must be permanent. Intellectual world: immaterial, non-spatial, permanent, real, experienced by the soul and intellect.
