CAS CL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Xenophanes, General Idea, Atomism

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Two locations where early philosophy thrived were ionia (eastern coast of asia minor) and greek colonies in modern day italy. Emphasized questions regarding physics, structure of the world, etc. Socrates shifted the balance to ethical philosophy, how to be a good person, and what truth means. Presocratics, on the contrary, were natural scientists. Gods play an everyday role in the greek life. They went to an oracle to receive divine will, however ambiguous and unclear. Philosophers opposed their quest for knowledge to the general idea that everything is due to the gods, that whatever you figure out with your mind, it"s going to be the god"s will that will determine the outcome. Would it be expectable that their gods were also cattle, because we depict the gods of bodies of such a sot as the form they have themselves. Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black.

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