Presocratics - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

ECTION A [50 marks] The question in this section is compulsory. 1. Write an essay {maximum 1000 words} in which in light of your studies this semester, provide a detailed answer to the following interrelated questions (which must form the main sections of your essay). (i) What is Western philosophy? (ii) What value, if any, can it in your opinion contribute to South African society? [in answering this question, you are encouraged to make recourse to etymology, branches, history and histor...

Typed notes from readings and lectures

THIS DOCUMENT INCLUDES THE "BIG 3" PHILOSOPHERS (SOCRATES, ARISTOTLE, AND PLATO), AS WELL AS GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ANCIENT PERIOD, THE PRESOCRATICS, SOPHISTS, THE STOICS, AND MORE. ADDITIONALLY, IT INCLUDED BRIEF EXPLANATIONS OF READINGS SUCH AS PLATO'S REPUBLIC, THE APOLOGY, ARISTOPHANES, THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE, AND MORE.

Greek Schools Notes + PreSocratics Schools

The most celebrated of the Presocratics was Pythagoras of Samos (c. 550 500 BC) (Pe385). He was certainly a real person as near contemporaries refer to him (Fu49) He is supposed to have left his native, an island in the Aegean, and travelled in the Near East (Pe16ff). Later Pythagoras is supposed to have settled at Croton in southern Italy and founded a school or a movement. The movement certainly existed and even held political power at times in Croton and Metapontum (also in southern Italy) in...

Detailed summary of the lectures from the course philosophy and ethics. I completed this course with a 9,0.

Lecture Notes Introduction to Philosophy Week 2