PHL220H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Upanishads, Plebs, Paradigm Shift
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Resentment people who exhibit prejudice, racism, etc: see insecurities within themselves and express it through resentment. The madman passage (pn 95: the madman = illusion to ancient greek philosopher diogenese of sinope. Diogenese known for carrying lantern wandering around streets of athens looking for virtuous person. Madman is carrying lantern searching for god. Diogenese often referred to as kyon = dog lived on the streets, etc. Cynicism = mistrustful of human nature / motives; external world is corrupt. Asceticism = abstaining from pleasure cynics embrace this. But very well respected: nietzsche"s god is dead . Belief in the christian god has ceased to be believable (pn 447) Faith seeks, understanding (faculty of reason) finds st. augustine. Aristotle the question of being; what they are . Something doesn"t come to be out of nothing; there"s a cause for everything. To avoid infinite regression (your parents made you, their parents made them, etc. ) Aristotle create onto-theological idea of god: 1.
