CLAS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rarefaction, Pythia, Real Works

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS201
• Professor: Nicholas Maes

Document Summary

In athenian drama, there are many conventions, but can be modified with a great deal of flexibility: another important institution of greek intellectual offerings (aside from drama) is philosophy philosophy. Introduction to philosophy: science takes a very long time to develop, historically; before this, many relied on, there is a western thinker by the name of alfred north whitehead who collaborated with. Bertrand russell with his work, principia mathematica, that was written at the start of the. 20th century (1910: whitehead was a gifted intellectual, who had a strong taste for mathematics and logic; he was well train in philosophy, and was also trained in the classics (such as. Stevenson (the man who came up with the steam powered engine), and he would have made the same observations that stevenson made. In other words, the greeks were almost there from a theoretical point of view, except they did not practice it.