Ancient Greece Flashcards
Battles between philosophers like _ who supported the idea of logos.
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
poets of folks
Christian, context or refers to Christ
Logos
In the older Greek context, logos means _.
rational argument
To get a successful career, you need a good degree by attending a good college
An example of rational argument
Ancient Greeks were convinced that logos was the path to _.
truth
To find truth, you construct everything you believe in to have a concise and focused _.
rational argument
There was a battle, sometimes political, military between folks who saw that the path to truth as imposed to _.
“mythoi”
The ancient root of the English word “myth”
“Mythoi”
A convincing, persuading story
“Mythoi”
Plato supported logos and knew how _ could be.
powerful stories
The folks that respected logos as the path to truth tend to have _.
higher intelligence
Plato argued that story-telling should be regulated by the _ to not let people go around telling any kind of story.
state
Should have control over what stories are told and who tells them
Political state
Plato knew that story-telling could persuade people by far more than _.
logos and linear arguments
Greek word, translated by the Romans from Greek to Latin
“Mythoi”
