greek philosophy by gloria diuco
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ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY
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• The first philosophers in Western history—the ancient Greeks—asked the most fundamental questions about human beings and their relationship to the world.
• More than 2,500 years later, the issues they pondered continue to challenge, fascinate, and instruct us.
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ISSUES
• Is reality stable and permanent or is it always changing?
• Are ethical values like justice and courage relative?
* Are values "absolute"—simply and forever right and true?
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• What is HAPPINESS?
• How shall we best live our lives?
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A Hunger for Reasons, not Myths or Beliefs
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PRESOCRATICS
Rejected myth and divine inspiration.
Insisted that true understanding always requires a rational explanation
(hence such English
words as "psychology" and "biology").
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Concerned with issues such as:
1. Identifying the "Being": the thing that is the origin of all other things.
2. They also introduced sophistic relativism, the notion that truth, goodness & other values were relative, depending entirely on the person or group that held them.
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Plato (429–347 B.C.E.) Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.).
• Plato and Aristotle were prolific authors.
• against relativism and instead were objectivists
• believed that important values were absolutely and universally true. And both left a staggering mark on history.
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Aristotle was simply known as “THE PHILOSOPHER."
• He is said to be the first to view knowledge as being divided into specific disciplines such as biology or astronomy.
• one value was foremost and was contained in everything, from the tiniest organisms to
the phenomena of fire to human beings: PURPOSE
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ARISTOTLE
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Everything has a purpose that can be recognized and objectively defined, and
that gives meaning to life
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GENERALIZATION
• Greek philosophy is ultimately not about facts or answers but about the give-and-take of ideas.
• Greek philosophy still heavily influences our view of life. We live today, at a time that is shaped by Presocratic, relativistic philosophy.
• Contemporary thinkers, and often the average person, have great difficulty finding objective truth or meaning in life.
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• What have we lost in turning away from the world of Plato and Aristotle—a world where everything has a place and a purpose and life is saturated with value and meaning?
• On the other hand, what would we lose if we returned to that world?
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These are a few of the many questions that will give you ample food for
thought. For the Greeks, that was the greatest feast of all.