HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Greek Mythology, Episteme, Bridle
Document Summary
For the in class essay: how aquinas related to the furies and other stories we have read. The problem of justice in the antigone: all decent people desire justice, all decent people agree: That the dead should be treated with respect. Treatment of the dead: creon"s position: lines 468 - 470. Creon and antigone share: an idealistic, fundamentalist view of justice (dike/justice was a god in greek. Mythology: a heroic notion of virtue ( winning is the measure of the man - or the woman, tragic trajectory (and unhappy telos - the end or purpose of things) There are aspect of creon and antigone that we like and support and vice versa - we don"t have athena come down and tell us so we use what aristotle says Socrates" question: how should i live? , three responses: Argument from authority - somebody told me how i should live.
