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What happened between 1378-1417? |
The great schism. Rival of popes. |
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What happened in 1453 |
Fall of constantinople to the Turks. End of hundred years war between England and France |
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1497 |
Columbus discovers america Moors and Jews expelled from Spain Vasco da gama reaches India by sea. |
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1517 |
Martin Luther circulated 95 theses: beginning of protestant reformation. |
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1588 |
Spanish armada sails against England and us defeated. |
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Kinds of explanation |
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Philosophers of militus |
Thales. anaximander. anaximines. |
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Thales |
All is water |
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Anaximander |
Everything comes from the boundless |
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Anaximines |
Everything comes from air, by rarefication and condensation. |
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Heraclitus |
-world does not come to be but is ongoing - fire-> water->earth & vice versa -rivers stay the same but their waters change -ultimate reality is logos, or law of change-radical change is basic in the world; constancy supervenes on change |
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Parmenides |
-notion of radical change -what is and what is not -plausible cosmology can be constructed. |
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What-is is (parminedes) |
-Without beginning or end -all alike -unmoved -complete |
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A plausible cosmology can be constructed by |
-based on 2 changless elements light and night -elements mix togethor to form all things. |
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Pluralists |
Anaxagoras, empedocles, democritus |
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Anaxagoras |
-World consists of a mixture of countless elements. - mind starts a vortex motion in matter |
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Empedocles |
-The world is composed of 4 elements: earth water fire air -2 fundamental forces: love (atraction) and strife (repulsion) |
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Democritus |
- the world is composed of atoms and the void. - chance encounters of atoms can lead to a cosmic vortex motion which produces a world. |
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Who we're Sophists |
Itinerant teachers, 450-400 BC - first professor's of adult education - success seminars |
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What did sophists teach? |
Practical subjects - public speaking - politics - social science - prepared leaders for democracy |
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Who are some examples of sophists? |
Protagoras: man is the measure of all things Gorgias: defense of Helen of troy. |
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What are problems seen with sophists? |
- Did they teach truth or just how to get ahead - sometimes promoted moral relativism |
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Socrates |
Street philosopher - interested in virtue(definition, it's a craft, not teachable) - question and answer method - disavowal to knowledge - no works or formal teachings - turned philosophy to ethics or moral theory. |
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The paradox of Socrates |
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Plato |
- follower of Socrates - author of dialogues with Socrates as protagonist - founder of school: the academy 386bc -3 voyager's to Syracuse in Sicily |
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Platos theories |
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Aristotle |
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Aristotle categories |
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The 4 causes (Aristotle) |
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Aristotle 2 |
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Aristotle physics |
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Aristotle psychology |
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Aristotle ethics |
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Aristotle ethics 2 |
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Epicurus |
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Epictetus |
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Stoic |
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Neoplatonism |
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Christian philosophies 2nd 3rd cent |
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Augustine |
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Aquinas |
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Aquinas on law |
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Aquinas on ethics |
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Renaissance 1400-1600 |
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Niccolo machiavelli |
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Pico |
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Shakespeare |
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Protestant reformation |
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Martin luther |
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John Calvin |
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Influence of philosophy |
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