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History of Philosophy
James Thurlow, Ph.D.
01.02.2012
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  • Greek philosophy
  • Republic
  • Philosophy of History
    Ancient Greece
    Men’s progress towards freedom . (Hegel)
    Persia is under emperor Xerxes - slaves, fighting for Xerxes and their country , but it does not mean anything to them
    Greece cities- Patriotism, they are fighting for their freedom and for their country, you can quit , because you volunteered, individuality.
    • Zeus (son of Chronos– Time and Gaia – Earth)

    • Transmigration of Souls- souls leave the bodies

    • Psyche- the mind


    Miletus
    Underlying principle of the universe - H20
    Milesian or Ionian School
    • “All things come from water into water all things are resolved”
    • Nietzsche claimed that he deserved to be considered the first philosopher because he argued:
      • About the origin of things
      • Without image or story
      • Claimed that all things are unified
    • Anaximander 610-546 BC
    • Anaximenes 585-528 BC
    Lawgivers:
    • Seven Sages
    • Solon of Athens
    • Thales of Miletus
    The Presocratics- first Greece philosophers
    Anaximander
    • All things are apeiron (without border, either internal or external)
    • From Anaximander we have the earliest words from a philosopher’s own writing:
    • Whence things have their origin,

    Thence also their destruction happens,
    According to necessity;
    For they give to each other justice and recompense
    For their injustice
    In conformity with the ordinance of Time
    Things have tendency to return back to its original form. Things were undifferented mass, this mass is in motion . All things are always in motion.
    All life, including men came from fish . First humans came full -grown from fish’s belly .
    Anaximenes
    All is aer ( spirit or mist) - all things come from spirit or mist.
    Spirit is distilled liquor.
    From cloud- air, water, earth, fire - all comes from aer.
    Connection between spirit, mind and world
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    Pythagoras (570-495 BC) and the Pythagoreans
    Political Theory: A Pythagorean was asked how one could give one’s son the best possible education, to which he replied that one should make him citizen of a state with good laws (cited in Hegel)

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    Plato’s Timaeus- dialogue , myth of Atlantis.
    Chaos kosmos.
    Pythagorean Table of Opposites
    The one
    Multiplicity
    Unity
    7 is a magic number. Number 7 produces changes .
    Heraclitus 535-475 BC
    Loner. Lot of people hated him.
    His famous lines from book of fragments:
    “It is wise to listen , not to me, but to the word ( logos ) and admit that all things are one”
    Logos
    Logic , psychology (love of wisdom ), biology- what holds together or binds, numerology, philology (love of the word). Reason , word, language , holds together/binds.
    “One cannot put one’s feet into the same river twice for new waters are ever flowing over them”
    Flux constant change
    “By changing it rests”
    Nature hides itself”
    • He is a philosopher of fire- all things are fire. Fire change, light, life, God.
    • He is a philosopher of the unity of opposites.

    The Eleatic School

    Nothing comes from nothing. Unchanging Being.
    • Against anthropomorphisms
    Being ≠ beings
    • Thinking and Being are the same
    • One cannot think not-Being
    • Zeno of Elea 490-439 BC

    Student of Parmenides
    • Paradoxes
    We tend to interpret the moving in terms of the static (living/dead) Being/beings.
    Dialectics
    Reductio and absurdum. Showing that a proposition when taken to its logical conclusion is results in and absurdity.
    Empedocles 490-430 BC
    Four Classical Elements : Fire, Earth, Air, Water

    Anaxagoras 500-428 BC
    A philosopher of Athens.
    A friend of Pericles, but after Pericles death he was accused of heresy for claiming that the sun and stars were a flaming rocks and that we don’t feel the heat of the stars because they are at a great distance from the earth.
    Atomists
    • Leucippus
    Atom indivisible
    • Democritus 460-370 BC
    • The universe is made of indivisible particles: atoms
    • The universe is entirely governed by physical laws
    • One should thus be hedonistic (devote oneself entirely to pleasure ) - hence he is called the “laughing philosopher”.

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    Sophists (Wise Men)
    Main opponents of Socrates in Plato’s dialogues (Hippias, Gorgias, Protagoras, etc.)
    Teacher of rhetoric, to make the weaker side appear the stronger.
    Protagoras of Abdera the most prominent Sophist 490-420 BC
    • “Man is the measure of things”
      • Relativism ? Does this mean that each person can judge the truth of a proposition and there is no basis besides opinion for determining the truth?
      • Idealism? Does it mean that we cannot talk about a reality which exists outside of human existence?
    Sophist:
    • Sophistication
    • Sophistry (false reasoning)
    Relativism- no truth only opinions . The problem is that, it does not work for me.
    Socrates 469-399 BC
    • Poor (taught for free)
    • Ugly (in a culture that highly prized physical beauty)

    Four sources for his life and philosophy:
      • Xenophon (Conversations with Socrates);
      • Plato (Dialogues);
      • Aristophanes (The Clouds);
      • Aristotle (various references in his philosophical works )

    • Irony: originally referred to lying, only after Socrates did it come to have the meaning that it has today .
    Xanthippe- bad temper, Socrates wife
    • Taught in the Agora (marketplace)
    • Taught in the aristocratic youths of Athens including Plato and Alcibiades
    • Claimed to consult his daimon when he needed the answer to some question
    Was put on trial for introducing new gods and corrupting the young. (280-220 people found him guilty, 340-160 people asked Apology )
    Dialectics
    According to Aristotle, Zeno of Elea was the first dialectician (reductio ad absurdum)
    • Socratic Dialectics: In the course of a dialogue the truth will come out. Two opposed points of view can be synthesized, retaining the positive element, the truth, of each proposition.
    • Historical Dialectics: A society carries within it the seeds of its own destruction. As a society grows this element will tend to take over and destroy other elements. When a new society arises it will contain the positive elements of previous societies.
    Virtue is knowledge
    Aret- suitability for its purpose
    A thing in motion is at an infinite number of points (Critobulus).
    A thing well-made for its purpose is beautiful (Socrates).
  • Negative step the destruction of an argument.
  • Find what is positive and see if it can be modified .
    Martin Luther King Junior on Racism:
    • Acquiescence (go along ) - it allows a person, who does wrong, to continue in their wrongness (ignorance and in justice). Non violent .
    • Violence- it only leads to more violence in an ever expanding spiral . Resistance .
    • The answer is Nonviolent resistance

    Plato’s Cratylus (modified for simplicity)
    Hermogenes
    • Any word can serve to name a thing
    • Reason: Different languages have different names for things
    • Socrates’ reductio ad absurdum: There can be no such thing as a private language

    Cratylus
    • There are natural names for things
    • Reason: When we look at our language we can see that names have natural meanings, a handsaw is a saw which we can use with our hand
    • Socrates’ reductio ad absurdum: A jews harp is neither a harp nor does it have anything to do with Jews.

    Socrates’ Synthesis
    Language is neither entirely
    Plato 429-348 BC
    Influenced by Heraclitus, the Eleatics, the Pythagoreans (Timaeus is said to be a veiled reference to their ideas ), Sophists, and Socrates (Nietzsche called Plato a Mischcharakter, a crossbreed)
    Founder of the Academy of Athens, where mathematics, not philosophy, was the main subject .
    Wrote in dialog form; Socrates was usually the main speaker in the dialogs.
    Mathematics- what can be taught, polymath.
    Meno , or On Virtue
    • A slave boy is given a complicated geometrical problem to solve, and is able to do it even without having ad instruction in the subject, because certain ideas are innate.
    • Virtue cannot be taught, it must be innate to us. (recollected)
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    Symposium
    A drinking party where the questions of beauty and love are discussed.
    In the early speeches love is praised and good and bad kinds of love (i.e. lust) are described .
    Love is the oldest god; there are two kinds of love:
  • Vile (physical) – honorable (spiritual)
  • Honorable – dishonorable
  • Healthy – unhealthy
  • Aristophanes – comic play write
  • Agathon – actor
  • Socrates
  • Alcibiades
    Aristophanes (a famous comic play write) describes man as having been split in two and that now each side seeks its other half
    At the end of the dialog Alcibiades, a good looking young man (who would later betray Athens), arrives drunk and complains that Socrates never used to pay attention to him although they were lovers.
    Alcibiades - Socrates: drunk vs. sober, young vs. old, licentious vs. chaste, dissipation vs. virtue, beautiful vs. ugly, traitor vs. patriot.
    Socrates’ Speech in the Symposium
    Love is neither beautiful nor ugly, but seeks beauty.
    In seeking beauty one is actually seeking immortality
    • Beautiful bodies give us healthy children who will honor us
    • Beautiful minds (Homer) give us works which will be honored long after we are dead
    • Beautiful souls (Solon) will create works which we will admire still more and still longer
    Love takes us out of ourselves and unites us with our object , whether a beautiful body , knowledge, or the gods.
    Origin of love is poverty and fulfillment. We only seek what we do not have.
    Love has to be between the ugly and beauty, just like the philosopher (is between ignorant and wisdom). Philosopher seeks wisdom, but he is not ignorant, so he has to have a part of this wisdom. Man is between gods (God) and reprobate- person, who is harden his heart to God. So if man wants to reunite himself with gods, he has to have something god-like (grace, conscience).
    What we seek is immortality- surviving beyond one’s physical death.
    The future is determining present .
  • Beautiful bodies will give us children, who will honor us after we are dead (but only up to a point).
    Gorgias, On Rhetoric
    Gorgias argues that rhetoric, the art of persuasion is the highest art.
    Socrates: the rhetorician is like a cook who prepares a meal that everyone will enjoy, while the philosopher is like a doctor who must sometimes give his patients unpleasant medicine to make them better.
    • Pursuit of pleasure is not the highest good.
    The tyrant who can do whatever he wants is neither happy nor truly powerful (a theme which will be taken up again in The Republic).
    In the afterlife we will all have to be judged naked .
    Time will tell.
    Sophistry- False but appealing argument
    Rhetoric- The art of argument
    Philosophy- Pursuit of the truth
    Passion leads to quarrels (emotion), reason leads to harmony.
    The unjust tyrant is unhappy because he cannot make common cause with the virtues.
    The Republic
    • The longest and most influential of Plato’s dialogs.
    • The dialogue opens with a discussion of old age, but then the question is raised: What is true justice?
    • A series of attempts to answer this question is given, Thrasymachus (a Sophist) argues that whatever the tyrant demands is just (justice is the interest of the strongest). The rest of dialog can be read as an attempt to refute this suggestion .
    Justice:
  • Paying back what you have received.
  • You must give good to those who have given good to you and bad to the bad.
    Justice for the tyrant means the weak serving the stronger. What if the stronger asks the weaker to do something which is not really in his interest?
    Might makes right.
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