The Pre-Socratic Philosophers

[Music] you need a all right ladies and gentlemen thank you once again for coming out I appreciate it Monday Night Football and they're here anyway um the Tennessee Titans are ahead 7 to zero you'll be glad to know um I'll keep you updated no I know but it's true they are up 7 to zero um last time we did the origins of the Greek World from now on I'll do uh major figures as we go forward but I wanted to just lay out the background of where the Greek world is coming from and I think that'll be clearer why I want to do that tonight as we prepare for Socrates everybody from zero to Socrates is called the presocratic which will give you an idea of how important Socrates is considered in the history of philosophy there's like everything before Socrates and everything after him is sort of the post socratics uh this is this is you know sort of the estimation of his importance in the history of of world philosophy so to begin uh we're going to we're going to do two figures tonight anex amander uh who will stand in for the malesian school which is an entire School of philosophy that begins with phes and sort of culminates with the atomists and democ in democratus is a major figure so but we'll start I'll use anex amander sort of the guy that represents them um and then the Pythagorean Pythagoras who stands in for the Pythagorean school um also known as the Italian school for for reasons that I'll explain um and so those two between them really give us the major threads of of the origins of Western philosophy and hopefully I can tease that out it's a lot of ground to cover um if I'm going too fast please raise your hand cuz this is this is a big one I as I Was preparing this I was like wow we're covering a lot of ground tonight so uh to begin with remember we have the homeric heroes that we went over last time we have the ilad and the Odyssey we've got these anthrop perfect Gods who behave in sort of human fashion very human in fact All Too Human fashion one might say um who create all kinds of troubles for Heroes the ethical life is clearly ...