PHI 1104 Lecture Notes - Microdot, Stoicism, Sextus Empiricus
23 Jan 2014
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What is philosophy: the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence, the study of wisdom (sophia, love (philo, the love of wisdom = philosophy. Cosmos: thought of the universe as always being here, that it was just different at one point in time (chaos) and moved to an ordered time (cosmos) Cosmogeny: theory of the creation of the universe. Anaxagoras ( 500-428 bc) brought to trial for impiety: first presocratic who activated in athens, teacher of pericles. In contrast to socrates, and probably with the political help of pericles, he exiled and died in lampsacus. January 8th, 2014: he wrote a book in prose, called on nature . Cosmogony: for anaxagoras, in the beginning of the cosmos there was not one but two principles that were infinite and everlasting in nature, mind (nous) and, the primeval mixture (migma)
