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Monday, February 26, 2007

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On How term appears Philosophy and the Philosopher's office

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Pythagoras was born on Samos and Mnesarco was the son of a carver and engraver of coins and precious stones. His vocation traveler, as other pre-Socratic philosophers, is proverbial: visited, among other places, to Egypt, Arabia, Babylon, and visited the Chaldean Magi with the desire to learn and learn directly about all sorts of mathematical, astronomical, religious rituals, etc. Pythagoras perfectly embodies the figure of the Greek sage, as Thales, Democritus Solon or traveled to other countries to watch, learn and earn a lot of knowledge. For this reason it should not be surprising that the ancient sources describe Pythagoras as the operator of the concept defines the activity most emblematic of the history of Western thought and culture, the word "philosophy."

Several witnesses agree, in effect, awarding the invention of the Pythagorean concept with an anecdote well known and in any case, very illustrative of his personality.

The story goes that Pythagoras had a conversation with Leonte, Fliunte tyrant. This ruling, admiring the talent and eloquence of Pythagoras, asked what was his profession and what he did. Pythagoras respodió he was not master of any art or profession, but was a "philosopher" and that, consequently, their dedication was the "philosophy." Leonte was astounded to hear a word whose meaning unknown and Pythagoras, to explain, used a metaphor that has been held: the life, he said, is like a gathering of people who attend the Olympics. To these people go for three different reasons: some athletes to compete for the glory of a prize, other traders, buying and selling, and finally there is a third category to watch the game: the spectators. Similarly, he said Pythagoras, some live to serve others to the fame and money. But the best choice is those who, like the spectators, they devote their time to the contemplation of nature, as lovers of wisdom, that is, as philosophers. [1]

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His reputation stood on the other to the point that almost all young people wanted to be his disciples and old wanted to see their children enjoy their company rather than dealing with domestic affairs. " [2]

Despite this success, Pythagoras was the subject of severe criticism from fellow philosopher Heraclitus. This, indeed, denounced Pythagoras as if it were a scholar and an impostor unable to assimilate the knowledge accumulated so eagerly: "The much learning does not teach intelligence. If so it would have taught Hesiod, Pythagoras, Xenophanes and Hecateo " [3] " Pythagoras, son of Mnesarco, performed the investigation rather than the other men and, after making a selection of these writings, won for himself a wisdom, erudition and a "bad art." [4] Note that the harsh criticism of Heraclitus, in addition to disqualify the scholarship of Pythagoras as producing no intelligence, tried to highlight one more fraudulent activity: knowledge of Pythagoras would not be the result or even of their effort, but a selection of books that contain knowledge that you used for your own benefit using "trickery." In other words, Pythagoras had plagiarized the knowledge he had learned from other scholars and, ultimately instance, would have presented as their own.

Some accounts seem to confirm these allegations to report that Pythagoras, in fact, plagiarized books awarded to Orpheus, who presented as having been written by him. [5] It is also very likely that these contacts with the Orphic doctrine, Pythagoras had removed one of its most striking and innovative theories: the belief in the immortality of the soul, destined to change, with Over time, philosophical world view much of humanity.

"In this way, concludes that philosophical knowledge never ends. Since its inception Pythagorean (somewhat controversial) to the present day is demonstrated that in a matter of science and human progress, the episteme NEVER ends. Every day it becomes stronger, sometimes falls and other, much more strongly, rising. "

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

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Source Philosophy Philosophy and logos

To see if the philosophical exercise is in its origin, Greek or Oriental.

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The origin of philosophy

The origin of philosophy has been a controversial issue to Throughout the history of thought. Generally considered the Greek philosophers that philosophy with Thales of Miletus born back in the seventh century BC, but was not considered necessary to explain how he had produced the emergence of a new way of thinking. Yes there seemed to be mutually agreed to consider philosophy as a form of rational thought par excellence, ie a way of thinking that does not resort to the action of supernatural elements to explain the reality and rejects the use of ambiguous or contradictory logic. It is from the controversy surrounding the Alexandrian philosophers in the Hellenistic period when the origin of philosophy starts to become a problem. And it will be throughout the twentieth century when they begin to find answers that explain the emergence of philosophical phenomenon. For our purposes it will suffice to consider the two most widespread hypothesis about the origin of philosophy: that which holds the source from Eastern philosophy and that philosophy makes an original creation of the Greeks, and then study.

A) The hypothesis of oriental origin.

Proponents of this hypothesis argue that the Greeks would have copied the Eastern philosophy, so that philosophy can not be considered an original creation of the Greek people. The first philosophers, supports this hypothesis, have traveled to Egypt and Babylon where they have acquired their mathematical and astronomical knowledge, far from being the creators of philosophy would have been a mere transmitters of knowledge Eastern which, in contact with Greek civilization had reached a higher development to that achieved in their places of origin. This hypothesis remained:
-Alexandrian philosophers. In controversy with the Greek philosophical schools, and with the intention to discredit, the Alexandrian philosophers put into circulation the thesis of oriental origin of philosophy.
-Parents Christian apologists. With polemical intent similar to that of the Alexandrian philosophers, the early Fathers of the Christian apologists, aerate the hypothesis of Eastern origin of the philosophy, assumptions which are not thereafter be maintained by the Western Christian philosophy.

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The question being debated is whether there is this alleged Eastern philosophy. If we assimilate philosophy to rational discourse understood as the impossibility of using the supernatural to explain natural phenomena, and the rejection of contradiction, it is difficult to sustain the existence of an Eastern philosophy. The question arises, then, is to determine whether the astronomy and mathematics these were or were not oriental philosophy. The studies on the subject seem to indicate that no, Babylonian astronomy tended to degenerate into astrology, that is, divination, and that mathematics Egypt, far from achieving the degree of abstraction necessary to be considered science, never exceeded the stage of a mathematical or practical knowledge generated under the measurement needs of the land after each of the periodic flooding of the Nile

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What makes it in Greece where he developed the philosophy and not anywhere else in the East? How to explain that in a particular civilization, generate a new way of thinking, as opposed to earlier forms of thought? What are their characteristics? And what were the characteristics of previous thought? Both the East and the Greeks possessed a mythology and similar religious beliefs. And the explanatory structure of which is also similar. A myth is a story about the origins, a narrative, not a solution to a problem can refer to the origin of the world, or the origin of a particular object, or a specific class of animals, etc. At the same time tells, places man in reality, given a role, function, meaning, it acquires a social function: to make intelligible the social order.

The existence of this form of thought is attested in all civilizations, and, of course, Greek. Of particular importance for understanding the emergence of philosophy may be the myths of Hesiod we find especially in the Theogony. In any case, such mythical explanations of the origin common to all civilizations, have also common characteristics that contrast with the characteristics of philosophical thought: the use of supernatural entities to explain the origin and the use of ambivalent logic, allowing the same element or entity to behave either as a god, whether as a natural element, would be among the most significant. The rejection of these characteristics, will own philosophy. And this rejection does not seem to occur in the so-called Eastern philosophy.

B) The hypothesis of Greek origin.

philosophy According to this hypothesis would be an original creation of the Greek people. We will focus on the explanations of historians of the twentieth century, of which we highlight

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J. Explaining Burnet. Thesis is called "Greek miracle." According to philosophy this hypothesis have appeared in Greece in an abrupt and radical as a result of the genius of the Greek people. This assumption ignores the historical, cultural and political, so it ends up not explain anything, falling into a vicious circle: The Greeks created the philosophy because they are great, and they're great because they create philosophy. Maintains in his book "The Aurora of Greek philosophy" (1915).

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FM Cornford's explanation. Defends the thesis of the development of philosophical thought from mythical and religious thought. According to this hypothesis philosophy would be the result of the evolution of primitive forms of thought mythical Greece the seventh century BC. To Cornford there is "a real continuity between the first rational speculation and religious representations involved" so that "the ways of thinking, philosophy, achieve clear definitions and explicit statements were already implicit in the intuitions of the irrational myth" . In his book "From religion to philosophy" (1912), Cornford explains how the structure of myths in Hesiod's "Theogony" is kept in the theories of early philosophers, rejecting their only recourse to the supernatural and the acceptance of contradiction. Emphasizes the educational influence of Homer and Hesiod in the establishment and subsequent development of Greek civilization, and also discusses how some of the fundamental concepts that will be later in philosophy, [moira (fate, destiny), Dike (justice), physis (nature), law, god, soul, etc.] come directly from the mythical Greek religious thought.

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Vernant JP's explanation in his book "Myth and thought ancient Greece" (1965), adds important elements derived from socio-cultural, political and economic development of the time to explain how this passage from myth to rationality was possible, and what took place in Greece instead of another civilization at the time. The absence of a priestly caste, the figure of the wise, the dominance of the city, public transmission of knowledge, individual freedom and development of writing, allow the questioning of the cosmological explanations and its replacement by a form thinking that does not involve belief and superstition own mythical and religious thoughts.

Structure Hesiodic myth

(in the "Theogony") serves as model to all physical Vernant Ionia, according to Cornford. In this myth, in fact, the reality is generated from an initial state that does not distinguish, for segregation of pairs of opposites that interact to finish setting up all the known reality. So there are three fundamental moments in the flow of the narrative:

1) is part of a state that does not distinguish the original element.

2) In the outbreak, through segregation, couples of opposites.

3) According to a constantly renewed cycle there is a continuous interaction of opposites.

C) Conclusions

However, this structure is found in the explanations of the early Ionian philosophers, but they have already taken the form of a problem in the philosophy the myth that streamlined. The myth is animistic, magical, invisible uses as the basis of the visible, accepts the supernatural and the extraordinary. The cosmology of the early philosophers adjust their language and content change: instead of telling the successive events first define the founding principles of being, instead of presenting a battle of God offers a mechanical exchange processes or phenomena. What are the conditions under which this change occurs?

to Vernant, the birth of philosophy is explained citing historical and social causes. The absence of a priestly caste in Greece, given the special features of Greek religion, eliminates the possibility of a religious dogma, and the possibility of making religion a speech closed, accessible only to those belonging to the priestly caste , there is, therefore, secrets to hide. Sage, that is at once seer, poet, prophet, musician, doctor, purifier, healer, but distinct from the priest or shaman of the Eastern religions, and has the power to see and make visible the invisible, discloses his knowledge: education here opposed to the initiation esoteric doctrine. Knowledge is disseminated, and getting rid of the figure of the magician. The expansion of the city, as a corollary to the economic boom largely derived from trade, is the advent of the citizen, a situation parallel to the birth and development of philosophy. The importance of lineage gives way to the priority of the polis, the community, which is usually accompanied by an organization claiming political advertising. Knowledge is transferred to the square in the middle of the agora, the subject of public debate where the dialectical argument will eventually prevail over the supernatural light.

philosophy, because, although rooted in myth, seems to be an original creation of the Greek people. His rejection of the supernatural, magic, of ambivalence, are signs of a rationality that we can hardly find in other forms of previous thought.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Brent Corrigan Limewire

Myth in Ancient Greece Philosophy

to how it moves from the imagination and divine beliefs with rational ability.

Today, when we comment on the Greeks, immediately we would have to refer to its main features: the stories of Homer, the great heroes, the first philosophers, the culture of the polis, the Oedipus complex, the Aristocracy and why not, its mythology.

Now, immersed in what the mythical wealth of ancient Greece, we have to describe the religious environment that captivated and admired the early Greek settlers. The first thing we do is, take an initial view of the most important events of this culture:

To do this, read the following historical summary analysis that made the page educar.org In this way, we will have a more open and industrious of the most important events in the different periods of Greek.

Religious The Greek environment, and the manifold problems

Greece, made up of hundreds of villages, was full of different mythologies and religious outlooks. All we can say is valid so it was a culture in itself political. In any case, whether textual and historical , mentions another feature distinct from the polytheistic (Monotheism). Very different is the Semitic culture, contemporary, preached the idea of \u200b\u200bone God.

This issue, multi-religious and conceptional of many gods, is unified in Homer's classic novels ( the Iliad and the Odyssey ) For convenience or agreement of all peoples. Hence was born in some villages, some skepticism, not to believe or doubt the existence of a god.

Greek atmosphere was this that influenced that would step from myth to logos. Triggers many problems and situations that could not in any case be resolved by a "god or gods" of war or peace.

also promoted various historical facts, in this culture mythical-but-sublime, it would open to rational thought, no longer stay with the mere explanations theogonic perhaps, ever, make sense, when to review and analyze actual situations in question.

So the future and the idea of \u200b\u200b no longer clinging to divine concepts, but real issues, rational, non-contradictory, the here and now, it was a destination , a future that is built is, in short, another ideological activity promoted by the Rationality.

Brief historical overview.

Taken from the free encyclopedia WikiPedia Historic Environment

Greek.

"pre-Hellenic period

From the Paleolithic is evidenced by the presence of man in ( 3200 BC to 2000 BC ) and the Asian in Asia Minor.

But it was on the island of Crete where he developed the most advanced civilization, the Cretan or Minoan . During its heyday (Middle Minoan period, around 1950 BC to 1550 BC), the built palaces of Knossos , Phaistos and Hagia Triada . On the other hand, the Achaeans protohelenos or settled in Argos, where they built the fortresses of Tiryns and Mycenae , which led to the Mycenaean name given to their high civilization, assimilation of culture Minoan. By 1550 BC began a swing on both sides of the Aegean culminating in the conquest of Crete and expedition against Troy. In the early twelfth century BC the Dorians invaded continental Greece, causing the migration of the Achaeans the Peloponnese , the Ionians to Attica, Euboea and Cyclades, and the Aeolian to Thessaly and Boeotia . That invasion increased the migration of Greek settlers to the coast of Asia Minor and caused the fragmentation of Greece in a city-state (polis ).

Greek Middle Ages

Towards eighth century BC began to build the main Greek city-states, the head of which had King with a military and religious powers, ruling advised by a council of elders. However, within the Greek society of the time, typically rural, there were large landowners, descendants of the most powerful in the war , which were imposed on the smallholders and replaced the monarchy by aristocratic power. Since then the directors and the judges were, in fact, chosen only among the nobility.

soil Poverty and population growth forced the Greeks to embark on the establishment of colonies throughout the Mediterranean area of \u200b\u200b , Which led to the birth of an active trade and the development of a thriving industry in the metropolis. From the seventh century BC commercial and industrial activity, more and more important, led to the emergence of a middle class eager to take part in city government. Meanwhile, the situation of the small farmer was doubly compounded: first it was impossible to compete with agricultural products imported from other countries by traders and other financial weakness made him enter, with increasing dependence on orbit of the nobility. In these times of social and political upheaval emerged in most cities Greek lawmakers and tyrants, men of strong character, usually from the aristocracy, who seized power and ruled with the support of the middle class and the people, who saw in them the much desired social reformers. "

Thus, it is assumed that the Greek culture in its various manifestations of political, social, artistic and reconnects freely promotes this step: In the basic conception of myth the design complex, but rational, what Logos is ( λóγος) .