Greek Phil, Unit Outline
Philosophy
Dr. Weiselberg
Classical Greek Philosophy, Unit Outline
Pre-Socratics
Four elements
Representative Philosophers
Thales
Pythagoras
Harmonics, Mathematics, Pythagorian Theorem, Deduction
Heraclitus - Flux
Parmenides - Permanence
Democritus - Atomism
Sophists
Def -
Ex - Protagoras - “Man is the measure of all things”
Socrates
Ethics
Oracle's message:
Gadfly
Sin:
Cause of evil:
Dialectics
Socratic Method
Trial and death of Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
Plato
Academy
Two Worlds:
The World of Ideas/Forms
The World of the Senses
The soul
Anamnesis
The eternally true, beautiful, good
Plato's epistemology:
Allegory of the Cave
Political state: The Republic
Aristotle
No innate ideas
Substance
Causation
Teleology
Final Cause
Logic
Syllogism
Nature's Scale
Ethics
Golden Mean
Politics
