HONR 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bertrand Russell
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Philosophy- philo meaning love , and sophia meaning wisdom , literally translated it means the love of wisdom . In class, a good student will read, write, speak, listen, and think. The professor"s name is christos evangeliou, christos meaning christ and. Evangeliou as in evangelical , evangelicals place emphasis on the good news that angels bring. Literally, his name means christ who brings good news. Greek roots allow us to break down and understand unfamiliar words. Although this is a philosophy class, our ideas are communicated with words so we must understand language in order to understand ideas. Logos which is found in english in the suffix -ology means the proper construction of words to communicate meaning. Our names even sometimes can be understood by breaking them down into greek roots. Theodore has the root theos meaning god , the name meaning gift from god .