POLS 2490- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 78 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2490
• Professor: David Carvounas

Document Summary

Lecture #1: socrates (the trial and death of socrates): the trial and death of socrates (recorded and written by plato) is really the preamble of. *the intellectual climate of the time: pre-socratic philosophy: : philosophers of the ionian coast (the ionian enlightenment) revolutionized the intellectual climate of this time period. But very little of their actual texts survived and everything that we know about them is second-hand (what effects they caused after their innovations). Common characteristics: dissatisfied with the explanations of the world from poetry and myth (from. Poetry was seen rather to ally with fictional and mythological stories and prose is used towards serious inquiry: they rejected the anthropomorphic gods of the greeks. We can have opinions but we do not get the truth or knowledge. Senses are limited when we try to understand the world: episteme: knowledge; is found outside of our senses. It is reached and obtained once we overcome our senses and opinions.