HUM 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Individualism, Agnosticism, Atomism
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Downfall from mistake in judgment due to character flaw (not severe) Ideal plot: hero"s life changes from fortune to misfortune due to intellectual error. Tragic irony: good intentions that cause disastrous results = self inflicted. Goal: to explain the world through natural causes vs myth. Natural elements and causes: water, fire, love/hate, mind. Heraclitus: nature in constant flux from solid to liquid to air. Leucippus and the atomists: all matter made of invisible atoms (uncuttable). All form is random: moral philosophy: socrates (469-399) Knowledge is a virtue and to know the good is to do the good . Produced skeptics (only believe what is absolutely certain) and agnostics (don"t believe what is not known for certain) Sophomores means wise fools : social philosophy: plato (429-347) Above = perfect world of forms: originals, absolute, unchanging, static. Below = imperfect world of matter; copies, changing, opinions. Theory of knowledge: (how to reach the world of forms?)
