Foundational Ideas from Antiquity - The Greek Miracle and the Presocratic Philosphers
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What does "psyche" mean to the Greeks and English?
Latin: psyche = anima
English: animal/animated = living things; inanimate = dead ones
English psyche = soul/mind
What did Heraclitus mean with the ambiguous relationship between stability and change, and his idea of the unity of opposites?
The unity of opposites: a road going upward is also going downward, depending on one's relative position and direction
What did the school of followers of Pythagoras discovered and emphasized?
Example: chords, Pythagorean theorem
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Why did Protagoras disagree with Zeno?
Why would Protagoras agree with sophists such as Gorgias?
What is special about the Hippocratic Corpus, written by the Hippocratics?
How does the humoral theory of the Hippocratics explain health and illness?
Example: On the Sacred Disease, epilepsy a result of an abnormal flow of pleghm into the brain
How do the Hippocratics treat diseases?
Tried to remove presumed humoral excesses by purges/bleedings
Emphasized exercise, diet, proper sanitation
Favored cautious experimentation to discover the therapeutic benefits of numerous herbal and other pharmalogical substances
What did the Pythagoreans attach to these wonderful correspondences between abstract mathematics and concrete experiences in the physical world?
What did Zeno mean with infinity?
Example: Achilles and the tortoise paradox
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