PHILO LESSON 1

• Philien means Love
• Philosophy began at the end of the 6th century happened in Ancient Greece
• Sophia means Wisdom
• Philosophers became the talk of the town in Athens because of the works of Hesiod and Homer
• Work and Days by Hesiod written as poem published around 700 BCE
• The Iliad and The Odyssey works of Homer
• Theo means God
• Logy means Study
• Gony means Origin
• Theogony means Origin of God
• Theology means Study of God
• Muthos (Myth) is the explanation of events
• Philosophy started in 587 BCE in a town called Miletus
• Miletus, seaport town and was considered to be the center of many things, including business and commerce
• 1st philosophers were said to be Milesians
• Philosophy began in wonder
• 1st Philosopher, Thales of Miletus
• Geocentric - According to Ptolemy and Plato that center is Earth
• Heliocentric universe - the sun is the center of the universe (Copernicus, Galileo)
• THAUMA means wonder
• OLIVER FELTHAM - provides a different understanding and clarification of how this thauma can be translated
• When a person is stupefied, that person is placed in a position of confusion
• STUPEFACTION - should lead one to question
• QUESTIONING - becomes indication that real and genuine knowledge does not end in awe
• PHILOSOPHY - love of wisdom
• DOUBT - pushes us to question many things to see that a greater reason is being veiled by what seems to appear before us
• THEOLOGY - theology means "the word of God" or "God's teaching". It refers to the study of religious faith, practice, and experience as expressed in various doctrines, sacred writings, and other sources.
• Not all doubts are healthy some could lead to skepticism
• SKEPTICISM - wherein everything is put into inquiry without any goal of grounding and could lead to being myopic
• MYOPIC - perspective that is in direct contrast to the spirit of philosophy
• French contemporary philosopher said that, a philosophical question that touch upon matters related to three things: choice, meaning, life

  ALLAN BADIOU
• Telos - end, fulfilment or goal or purpose
• Teleology - study of purpose
• might be more familiar to mathematicians

  Pythagoras
• He marked a radical shift from the mythic to the rational

  Pythagoras
• his invention that the world is governed by a principle that only numbers can provide is as radical as Copernicus saying that the Earth is not the center of the universe during Renaissance

  Pythagoras
• everyone is a philosopher

  Philosophus
• he says “someone who, in all his might pursues wisdom”

  Pythagoras