PHIL 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nicomachean Ethics, Pythagorean Theorem, Ancient Greek Philosophy
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Partially great at growling olive and good at trading. Elite citizens don"t have to work, so they talked and came up with stories, ex. While the greeks had a number of religious belief and myths, around 600b. c, they began to question their origin. 1st person on record to assert that nature is unified by a single principle, the principle of water (liquid, solid, gas) 1st person on record to attempt to explain natural phenomena without reference to the supernatural or mythology, and to offer an argument for his view. 1st proof of math; reasoning with numbers instead of merely counting. Gave women equal standing in the opportunity of study. By utilized the 1st geometric proof that the relation holds for any and all right triangles. The pythagoras theorem is true; can"t be disrupted by political, economical and social differences. Greeks began to demand answers and reasons for claims, leading to broader theoretical explanations for the phenomena in the world.
