HIST110 Lecture : L5 - Greek Cultural Achievement.docx
11 Apr 2013
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Cosmology: study of the cosmos: from animism to polytheism. Philosophers: lovers of knowledge: pre-socratics lived before socrates. 611-546 b. c. e. : world made of substance called apeiron ( unlimited ) Anaximenes (d. 525 b. c. e. : the primary substance = air. 580-507 b. c. e. : metaphysics: beyond things , significance of numbers in objective world. 5 15-450 b. c. e. : three-part verse composition titled on nature, concept of being: all is one . 500 b. c. e. : complained people did not comprehend the logos (greek: reason", opposites were connected. 495-430 b. c. e. : 4 primary elements: earth, water, air, and fire, love & hate combined or separated 4 primary elements. 450 b. c. e. : nature was empty space and atoms. The age of socrates: from cosmology to ethics. The sophists ( those who were wise": protagoras (c. 485 c. 410 bc): man is the measure of all things. 469-399 b. c. e. : attacked the sophists, continuous process of questioning (dialectics, convicted of corrupting youth and religious offenses, sentenced to death: died by poisoning.
