Philosophy and Fairy Tales
Sophies World-The only thing required to be a philosopher is the faculty of wonder (17)
Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales (334)
Possible symbol-rowboat with one oar in the lake, and someone needing the rowboat to get home (99)
Superstition-negative connotation; faith-positive connotation
Influenza-misalignment of the stars; hermetic-hidden, inaccessible;
Francis Bacon-“knowledge is power”, invented English essay with loose format. Printing press let us use knowledge to obtain power. • Questions • Who are you? • Where does the world come from? • Is there a basic substance that makes up everything? • Can water turn to wine? • How can earth and water produce a live frog? • Why is lego the most ingenious toy in the world? • How can a baker bake fifty exactly identical cookies? • Why are all horses the same • Is there an immortal soul? • Are men and women equally sensible? • Why does it rain? • What does it take to live a good life?
Natural philosophers • Greeks • Assumed that something had always existed • Believed in a basic substance • Took the first step in scientific reasoning, precursors to modern science • Thales • “All things are full of gods”, we can only surmise • Not mythological gods, merely unknown forces or creatures • Basic substance was water • Anaximander • All things are limited, so the basic substance that has always existed must be “boundless” • Anaximenes • Air and vapor was origin of Earth, water and fire
Eleatics-Focused on the question of the impossibility of a basic substance • Paramenides • Everything that exists always has ,conservation of matter • Nothing could become a different thing, contradicted his senses, but followed reason • Heraclitus • Nature is in a constant state of change and flow, believed his senses • World is characterized by opposites (if we never
Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales (334)
Possible symbol-rowboat with one oar in the lake, and someone needing the rowboat to get home (99)
Superstition-negative connotation; faith-positive connotation
Influenza-misalignment of the stars; hermetic-hidden, inaccessible;
Francis Bacon-“knowledge is power”, invented English essay with loose format. Printing press let us use knowledge to obtain power. • Questions • Who are you? • Where does the world come from? • Is there a basic substance that makes up everything? • Can water turn to wine? • How can earth and water produce a live frog? • Why is lego the most ingenious toy in the world? • How can a baker bake fifty exactly identical cookies? • Why are all horses the same • Is there an immortal soul? • Are men and women equally sensible? • Why does it rain? • What does it take to live a good life?
Natural philosophers • Greeks • Assumed that something had always existed • Believed in a basic substance • Took the first step in scientific reasoning, precursors to modern science • Thales • “All things are full of gods”, we can only surmise • Not mythological gods, merely unknown forces or creatures • Basic substance was water • Anaximander • All things are limited, so the basic substance that has always existed must be “boundless” • Anaximenes • Air and vapor was origin of Earth, water and fire
Eleatics-Focused on the question of the impossibility of a basic substance • Paramenides • Everything that exists always has ,conservation of matter • Nothing could become a different thing, contradicted his senses, but followed reason • Heraclitus • Nature is in a constant state of change and flow, believed his senses • World is characterized by opposites (if we never