1 / 17

The Greeks: Legacies

The Greeks: Legacies. Geography. Chronology. Archaic Greece (3000-1600 B.C.) Mycenaen Greece (1600-1200 B.C.) Dark Ages (1200-800 B.C.) Greek Renaissance (800-600 B.C.) Classical or Hellenic Greece (600-323 B.C.) Hellenistic Greece (323-31 B.C.). The Polis (City-State) . Democracy.

kordell
Download Presentation

The Greeks: Legacies

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Greeks:Legacies

  2. Geography

  3. Chronology • Archaic Greece (3000-1600 B.C.) • Mycenaen Greece (1600-1200 B.C.) • Dark Ages (1200-800 B.C.) • Greek Renaissance (800-600 B.C.) • Classical or Hellenic Greece (600-323 B.C.) • Hellenistic Greece (323-31 B.C.)

  4. The Polis (City-State)

  5. Democracy

  6. Intellectual Inheritances:Order & Meaning in the Universe

  7. Virtue sophrosyn(moderation, self-control) hubris (pride, arrogance, unbridled ambition)

  8. philosophy ("love of wisdom")

  9. phenomena of the universe explained by natural causes

  10. Sophists submitted all conventional beliefs to the test of rational criticism

  11. human excellence or virtue is knowledge, and evil and error are the result of ignorance

  12. truth exists, but only in the realm of thought, the spiritual world of Ideas or Forms

  13. Plato’s The Republic:concept of an ideal state

  14. "philosophy of human affairs": object is the acquisition and maintenance of human happiness

  15. Aristotle, Ethics:two kinds of virtue (arete) intellectual moral

  16. Hippocrates: disease resulted from natural, not supernatural, causes

  17. four liquids or humors Blood Phlegm Black bile Yellow bile

More Related