POLS 2490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sophist, Protoscience, Ancient Greek Philosophy
1 Feb 2017
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Euthyphro: dialogue that occurs in the weeks before the trial of socrates, for which. Socrates and euthyphro attempt to establish a definitive meaning for the word piety (holiness). The apology of socrates: dialogue that presents the speech of legal self-defence, which. Socrates presented at his trial for impiety and corruption. Development of philosophy produced conditions under which socratic philosophy developed. Intellectual fashion that was current at the times of socrates associated with groups of intellectuals called sophocles. In 6th century greece, thinking was revolutionized by thinkers from ionian costs, philosophers of ionian enlightenment (pre-socratic) Very little of their philosophy survives and most of what we have comes second hand, from fragments that survived, its philosophy had common characteristics, they were dissatisfied with explanation of world that relied on stories (homer). Group of philosophers that were concerned about myths, and to express their ideas they used prose rather than poetry.
