The New Learning Flashcards
Empedocles’ theory of the four elements? What are they?
Earth, air, wind, fire
What was Democritus’ theory?
Atomic theory
What did Socrates say about democracy?
It needs critical self-examination
What was 5th century Athens a center for?
Intellectual inquiry
What two people had New Learning Schools?
Pythagoras and Hippocrates
What was the clash between the New Learning and old piety (gods)?
What role do the gods play if we can explain things scientifically?
What was aristocratic’s class view on New Learning?
You cannot teach arete, gentlemanly excellence, looked down upon intellectuals
What were the yeomen’s (middle class) unhappy with?
Distrustful of aristocratic individuals and saw them as antidemocratic- unhappy with old gods’ behavior
Sophistical
Deceptively attractive but WRONG
Was there public education in Athens?
No, father was required to train son a skill
Who were the sophists?
Professional wisemen, teach for a fee
What do the sophists teach?
Arete
Why did Socrates criticize sophists?
They took a fee for teaching
List of issues
Nature of truth, relationship between thought, language, reality, theories of knowledge, what role do the gods play, justice, problems of living in a society, relationship between individual and state, rhetoric
