PSYC85H3 Study Guide - Emo, Zeitgeist, Ancient Greek
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: what do you learn by that if you look around and see communities at war. so people need a school of thought that is sensitive to the challenges they are facing there for 4 diff. School of thought. that address this hellenistic period. 1)skeptics: advocate for non-reminiscent lifestyle focused on community. (adapt through hard times and should attempt to be a moral hero living by a moral code. they say its a new era, focus in on building a new society. Plato: think critically. catholic church: brink of loosing , they dont want people to think critically, but encourage people to be told what to do, and that theres only one truth. Idol of the tribe: people have tendency to exxagerate, to distort. you will se more regularity in nature than actually exists out there. this limits scientists, they will see more than actually exists, will jump to conclusions.
