UGC 111 Final: Notes From First Exam to Second Exam
31 Mar 2014
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Although many greek gods were based on magic (and previous mesopotamian deities), many greeks in the ionian colonies began to think rationally about the natural world. This is the beginning of natural explanations for the world, without god/supernatural. Some believed that humans envisioned the gods as resembling themselves. Beginnings of agnostic views, as individuals began to question more. Hippocrates began to try and diagnose and treat disease without supernatural influence. Philosophers believed that the world was rational and understandable through natural means. Opened the door to even more in-depth pondering on the nature of human consciousness and being. Leucippus of miletus (atomic theory) and democritus of abdera believed in tiny solid particles that formed the universe. Sophists: traveled teaching individuals techniques of persuasion (highly valued in athenian democracy), wisdom and virtue. Critias said that gods were invented by man (much as laws were) to control others behavior.
