CLAS201 Midterm: test 1.docx

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

Document Summary

Country is poor, soil is poor, not a lot of wealth, small and under populated. Political science beocracy, democracy, autocracy, oligarchy, theocracy, monarchy - comes from greeks. Polis- city state: people need governing, artistotle asked which system is better, how many systems can there be, merits and attractions to each. Greeks understand people live differently from each other: no other culture had this. Artistotle: logic, syllogism, ontology, ethics systematic point of view not religious ethics. rationalisom, epistemology how we understand things. How do we know if things are correct: science the world is a cosmos order, systemaic and organized. Ideas theory of ideas greek word understand these not turn to religious text. Rational framework: math and geometry, medicine, bio, oncology, cranium, genetics, tomos atom look at physical world. Entertainment athletics: gymnastics greek word, olympics - made athletic competitions. Shortcoming ego centric, sabotage neighbours, individual glory and excellence theatre, drama, comedy/tragedy, character, epilogue, protagonist.