POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sophist, Pre-Socratic Philosophy
4 Oct 2018
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Mutual relationship between individual and community/symbiotic/identity formed by community, you form comm. Besides its invention of demo, athens had silver mines worked by slaves, becomes wealthy. A general, themistocles, proposed investing wealth in 3 level fleets. Source of slaves came from conflicts, regime changes dalian alliance by greek city-states. Traditonal value system challenged and even by athens, condemned by milos. Socrates branded as one of those philosophers socratic assocatiated with sophism, with challenging question and answers that shook people"s (cid:271)eliefs sophists paid money to teach; mainly of rhetoric and good speech, arguments. At the end of the century, conventions breaking down, socrates and plato challenging. Arisphomus portrays socrates about him being the mother of all sophists. Socrates portrayed as anti-conventional figure head in the clouds reps socrates. Charged for corrupting the young and not recognizing gods. Socrates chastising jury rather apologizing, appealing to emotionsc during defense speech. Care of the soul unconventional, it should be more about obedience and law.
