Pre-Socratic lives by materialism
refers to Ionian:
keen on nature science. Why it comes to be, why exists?
Dissatisfied with nature science
Apolo’s oracle at Delphi: Know yourself
He knows nothing about superior things and right way to live
He is not wise
Cannot be wise about nature, without wise of ourself for how we live and love
Use the knowledge well
Wisdom
Begins in self-understanding
What is the way we ought to live?
Philo-sophia love-wisdom != not being wise
Can only love what we lack
Precisely not to be wise
Philosophers vs. Fool: Philosophers knows hes not wise, whereas a fool doesn’t
Longs for wisdom —> only god is wise complete wisdom are not for human
Learn from Pythagorias
Soul is not human life, paradoxical of life
Hermenedies: Pythagorian cares for the soul (rational, pursue for rational)
Neither gods nor beast Spiritual beings operate between gods and beast
- not posses wisdom but can have the ability to pursue such wisdom
Socrates
What is X?
- True of all case
- Reason why something is an X
ex: Logos what gods love some, not others
Platonic Idea (Form) The idea of X is the form all particular Xs share, and which cause them to be X.
Plato —> Idea for all Socrates asks —> More than materialism —> from Socratic or Platonic is wrong - Idea is not material, not body in space or time - Ordinary experience
Charges for Athenian trials?
Animosity with regards to to his way of being?