PHL 187 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Ionian Revolt
14 Sep 2018
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Difference between greeks and others living around them: What they called primitive, societies accepted things have always been this way. No inquiry into the history of things, why things are the way they are. Accepting the world as it is is not totally unreasonable; however, the greeks questioned this. When we ask questions about the world, we already have a presumed idea of the world. Curiosity in combination with stability becomes the philosophical perspective. Athenians colonized ionia; ionians then colonized peria. Along with the colonization came the idea of liberty and self-determination. Stability disappears in this situation as the athenians then become concerned with colonizing persia. Reason for why things are the way they are. Test of truth in our speculations (through observation) Seeing things as black and white; living and dead. Argument that things contain a soul; introducing a grey area to answer our deeper questions about life around us. For example, finding how to build a proper boat.
