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hellenistic and roman period |
cultural decline green city-states are consumed by roman empire people are marginalized |
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under the conditions of the hellenistic and roman period philosphers began to |
focus inward pleasure seeking is advocated |
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epicurius |
seek pleasure name associated with indulgence introduces notion of 'repose' like meditation |
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pleasure is defined as |
the absence of pain |
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the logic that pleasure is not pain means |
sometimes death is better than life |
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stoics |
embrace the notion that death can be greater than life |
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seneca |
was a stoic who killed himself because pleasure is absence of pain |
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stoics accept |
the socratic equation that virtue equals knowledge they espose that we should eshew worldly possesions |
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judaism |
develops from polytheistic traditions one god - jehovah torah |
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christians |
adapt torah into old testemant |
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eschatological |
death&the end of things |
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christianity exists in the roman empire |
300-400 years after jesus' death much turmoil and supression from roman police |
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christian canon |
not set until about 400 AD |
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313 AD |
Constantine converts to christianity declares it state religion only 10% of pop was christian authorities look for inspiration look to plato and socrates |
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the ontological argument of anselm |
argues for gods existence imagine the most perfect thing if such a thing does not exist then it is not perfect since we can imaging the perfect thing then it must exist a derivative of plato |
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islam |
muhammad (pbuh) is born in mecca in 570 recieved revelation via gabriel when he was 40 for the next 20 yrs he recieved revelations compiled in the qu'ran muhammad is the last and greatest prophet monotheistic islam/muslim = submission |
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the spread of islam |
spreads far and wide over next 100 yrs establishes self in spain with the moors |
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moors |
jewish and christian scholars work together re introduce knowledge to europe |
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st thomas aquanias |
attempts to christianize aristotle did agree with aristotles views on hierarchy the first cause argument causes come from god and lead to god so god is eternal empirical and relies on observation |
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aristotle belived that |
1) the earth is eternal 2) god is indifferent to human affairs |
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first cause argument |
observe the law of cause and effect. everything has a cause. if you follow things backward eventually you get to the first cause, god |
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ee cummings |
the intelligent person always roots for the lost cause realising all others are merely effects |
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ockhams razon |
given two potential explanations, the simpler one is generally the more likely to be correct |
