SFI-UF 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Filial Piety, Polemarchus, Egalitarianism
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Creating a model and offering an understanding of myths as just that. models. Saying that they are just lies. they may be useful of useless but they are lies. The only way to be sure that the soldiers wont attack citizens is to create a model of what we want them to be. Midterm:due midnight sunday analysis, connection between content class 10/8. Augustine was born in north africa mother was catholic father was pagan unbeliever story of a conversion- he wasnt a christian until he was 30 he had received christian education through his mother. 50 years from banned religion to required religion speaker convinced augustine. Neoplatonism-of all of the classical philosophies that had survived- least relativist. Christianity- main topic- relationship or tension between faith and reason. how are we to reconcile the demands of reason with the leap of faith that religion demands of us? classical world and its emphasis on rationalism.