ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cyrus Cylinder, Socratic Method, Zoroastrianism
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5th ce bc key religious and philosophical points. The persian rulers granted religious tolerance; this is documented in the cyrus cylinder . +did not force their people to follow their religion. =this benefited the jews hugely, they praised the persians for overthrowing the babylonians and permitting them to practice; in addition, the persians even gave money to the jews to rebuild temples. =document that says that people within the persian empire will be granted religious tolerance; the west did not come up with the idea of religious tolerance. =persians recognized the right for other people to practice any religion. In greece during this same period, a new form of philosophical thinking was being developed by socrates, who challenged the use of questioning vs. common sense. +using the socratic method to assess common sense assumptions. =socrates lived in athens, greece at the time; athens was often famed as the birthplace of democracy, however there are several issues with this viewpoint.
