RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mythbusters, Lake Ontario, Ethnography
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Prior to plato"s time in ancient greece the concepts of mythos and logos overlapped. Both pointed to the idea of a story or a narrative, an account, or a retelling, the word on the street, to use a colloquial term. Plato was an ancient greek philosopher who is believed to have lived in the 5th century b. c. e. (before the common era), dying in the middle of the. He is well known for many texts, in particular the republic (from which the canadian music group the philosopher kings take their name) and the symposium (which you will be reading later in this course). Philo and sophia or love of wisdom. sophia was the greek goddess of wisdom, and philo is the love of something. An audiophile is a person who loves high quality production of sound. Plato loved the pursuit of wisdom, seeking knowledge through debate and an oratory technique known as the dialectic.