HUMA 1951 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Stephen Hawking, Norman Mailer, Metrosexual
27 Mar 2018
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Achilles, iliad the greatest fighter, he sought fame and immortality over. Ulysses/odysseus, odyssey also a great warrior but combined this with. Loyal to his comrades, vengeful to his enemies. cunning so that he could outwit dangerous enemies such as the sirens and the. Socrates an intellectual hero, he declared that the unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates is the earliest example of the intellectual hero. existence. Only mature philosophers are fit to rule society for they act on reason alone. All others act on emotion and desire which plato thought was dangerous and unreliable. Aristotle also valorized the mind but attended to the everyday realities. He declared there is no eternal ideal of the good but rather it must be determined by each person in the context of their lives. Thus the here and now" became more important than an eternal, unchanging platonic realm of pure ideas.
