PHILOS 25A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Milesian School, Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Well-Order
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These things declare to me from the beginning, you muses who dwell in the house of olympus, and tell me which of them first came to be . Muses told him how things are you better believe this man! Narrative that lacks any logic that would make it intelligible; a sequence of events. The history of philosophy is not only a history of answers to philosophical questions, it is also a history of the discovery of how to put philosophical questions. The first philosophers (as far as we know) started with a limited set of philosophical questions. B fragments original pronouncements or quotations of the philosopher. Professor is going to give us a narrative that makes philosophy a discourse. Each philosopher is simply a response to the previous. How is each philosopher coming at a later time allowed to say what they"re saying, given what came before them? alive.
