SPECIAL MEETING (VICE DEAN)

 Ancient and medieval political philosophy

 Ancient & medieval- specific period or epoch in history
 It is difficult to separate the two from one another because time is continuous.
 Aristotle- Natural capacity of the mind to compose, to clarify the history of
philosophy to different philosophy, but the question is concerned can we really do
that? can we divide medieval and ancient? Is there really a sharp divide?
 Plato- define time as a moving symbol of eternity that is motionless.
 We can’t hold on to the past and future
 Ancient Greece is a linear reality
 The present is pleasing moment
 The history of Philosophy, we cant sharply say when the ancient started and the
medieval ended because it is continuous
 Philosophy- we are now speaking in Greek not in English, because philosophy as
a concept it resist translation
 If it resist translation it tells us that the concept must be understood in
accordance its origins
 Aristotle said we are rational being, we desire to know
 Ancient philosophy-
 Criterion of truth is time
 One of the foundation oh philosophy is to find a final cause (aristotle), it means end
 In the time of Plato there are 3 concepts, material cause, efficient and formal
 (LOVE THERE IS A DISPOSSITION TO HATE) If the difficult is something you can conquer there is
hope, but if it is difficult to conquer then there is despair, this is the problem with eros or erotic
love
 PLATO AND THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE
 Aristotle hates sophist because they are a product of wealth
 Plato characteristics is idealism
 For plato knowledge is anamesis ( a remembering), in other word when we say the mind it is full
ideas or in Greek eidos, for plato man is his soul (topes Noetos)
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