POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Peloponnesian War, Sophist, Stomotheca
23 Mar 2017
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Greek philosophy before socrates (the presocratics: 6th century, greek thinking was revolutionized, known as the philosophers of. Ionian enlightenment (presocratics: presocratics used prose not poetry, from this point on poetry became associated with myth, attempted to outline the underlining basis of the cosmos, to a large extent. Socrates - sculptor by trade, largely self taught in philosophy, studied ionien enlightenment, studied presocratics, unlike ionien philosophers socrates was an. Athenian citizen paid, he wrote nothing down, resisted formulating a philosophical system on moral philosophy, extracted key others: plato, zenathon, critis (one of 30: was part of the army, soldier in peloponnesian war. Had to be initiated by writing out an indictment: meletius wrote indictment against socrates. Goes to magistrate, runs into euthyphro who happens to be taking someone to court. very strong knowledge of right and wrong. punishment was decided, the man in chains had died. Socrates is shocked that euthyphro is putting his father on trial.
