HUM 101W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Athenian Democracy, Irreducible Complexity, Euripides

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUM 101W
• Professor: Samir Gandesha

Document Summary

January 18, 18 trying to tie reason and love together. Wants to make eroticism into something that moves into the direction of reason, and wisdom, not just the sensuous beauty, but the idea of beauty: reason: what we will run into while reading plato"s symposium. If creon"s authority is challenged, specially by a young woman, that might lead to a revival of the civil war, as people will start to question his authority. Both, creon and antigone, sides have legitimate personal reasons for acting that the way they are acting: antigone: Creon came up with the idea of punishing antigone in order to prevent anarchy to happen. Tragedy highlights that we as human beings are faced with many conflicting situations in our lives. We have numerous obligations to different people in our lives and different communities; we have different ethnicities and sexual orientations. There is an irreducible complexity to each of us.