Objectives:

GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND RELIGION

PHILOSOPHY

SCIENCE
2 CRUCIAL PRINCIPLES ESTABLISHED BY
GREEK’S MYTHOLOGY ACCOUNTS:
Then, a new kind of thinker emerged...

Sophos
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Presocratics
-First Philosophers

- Searched for rational explanations to

questions that mythology could not
adequately answer

- Interest in explanations drove the development of reason and

rational discourse. And led to the establishment of standards of
verification.

-This triggered questions about logical consistency and

standards of knowledge. The result was a clear separation of
theoretical knowledge from practical wisdom.
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DEMAND FOR SPECIALIZED EDUCATION RISES

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ETHNOCENTRISM EMERGES
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 RELATIVISM

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Cultural Relativism

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 Individual Relativism
Individual Relativism is the idea that all societies should accept each
other's differing moral values, given that there are no absolute truths
or universal moral principles.

❖ It asserts that moral judgments and principles are determined by an

individual's personal beliefs, preferences, or feelings.
❖ There are no universally valid moral principles but rather all moral
principles are valid relative to individual experiences or preferences
even in the same place and time.
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Who is Protagoras???
Protagoras of Abdera (481– 411 B.C.E.) :

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ICE BREAKER!!
HIPMSOS
SOPHISM
HORTCIER
RHETORIC
GATRPASORO
PROTAGORAS
LLECCASLI
CALLICLES
LAYMITRO
MORALITY
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 Main Proponents

Charles Sanders William John Dewey

Pierce James
Forms of Pragmatism

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Forms of Pragmatism

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Forms of Pragmatism

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Forms of Pragmatism
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 Moral Realism
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The Ring of Gyges
Egoism
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ICE BREAKER!!
ENAIATNHS
ATHENIANS
TMRPGISAMA
PRAGMATISM
TICHNNROEMSRE
ETHNOCENTRISM
YSOIOLPHHP
PHILOSOPHY
SEIGMO
EGOISM