Warm Up Activity: The Ship of Theseus

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Warm Up Activity The Ship of Theseus

• Take a moment to read The Ship of Theseus.
• Make notes on paper in order to prepare to
  respond to the questions posed.

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Question 1So, was the ship still the original
ship?

• Yes
• The ship is what the shipmates aboard the vessel
  the vessel call it. We can assume that they still
  all call it Theseus.
• The ship is what everyone knows it by. We can
  assume that all of the letters that the shipmates
  have sent to their familes say things like "yes,
  I am still board Theseus, so everyone calls the
  ship by this name.
• No
• A ship is a whole made up of parts. If you
  replace the parts it changes the whole.

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Question 2If the two ships park side by side
which one is the ship of Theseus?

• The old ship is Theseus. The ship is what we call
  it.
• The new ship made up of the original Theseus
  parts is the real Theseus. The ship is the
  material parts that make it up.

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Ancient Greeces Contribution to Philosophy

• Ms. Hernandez
• Western Humanities

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Why study Greece?(Remember the list from my
Greek Tour?)

• Important Ancient Greek contributions are seen in
  our modern world.
• We already discussed
• Athenian democracy as an important model for
  present day political systems.
• Now lets examine
• How the work of Greek philosophers, such as
  Socrates and Plato continue to be relevant to
  modern thought and society.

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Why study Philosophy?

• Philosophy is the starting point of all sciences.
• Before physics, sociology, mathematics, and other
  scientific schools separated themselves into
  individual sciences, there was philosophy.
• Greeks were the first to document systematic
  definitions of their surrounding world without
  relying on the gods.

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Greek Philosophers

• Socrates
• Plato

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Socrates

• Lived in and around Athens
• He was Platos teacher
• He did not write anything, all recorded work is
  from students, such as Aristophanes and Plato.
• He was the 1st philosopher to focus on the
  questions of ordinary living rather than the
  nature of reality.
• He was put on trial and sentenced to death for
  impieties against state and for corrupting
  Athenian youth.
• He developed the Socratic Method.

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Plato

• After death of his mentor Socrates, he shifted
  away from political ambitions and turned to
  philosophy.
• Founded the Academy in 388 B.C.
• He wrote in dialogue form and his main character
  was often Socrates.
• Wrote The Republic greatest work on political
  philosophy
• He was the teacher of Aristotle.

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Before we can study and understand the
contributions of Greek Philosophers we must
understand.

• What is Philosophy?

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What is philosophy?

• The study of knowledge, ideas, being, intellect,
  and existence
• Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means
  and moral self-discipline.
• Investigation of the nature, causes, or
  principles of reality, knowledge, or values,
  based on logical reasoning rather than empirical
  methods.

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What is philosophy?

• A system of thought based on or involving such
  inquiry the philosophy of man
• The critical analysis of fundamental assumptions
  or beliefs.
• The disciplines presented in university
  curriculums of science and the liberal arts,
  except medicine, law, and theology.

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What is philosophy?

• The discipline comprising logic, ethics,
  aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
• A set of ideas or beliefs relating to a
  particular field or activity an underlying
  theory an original philosophy of advertising.
• A system of values by which one lives has an
  unusual philosophy of life.

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Wow! Thats a lot!

• Basically, philosophy is not easy to define!

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Lets try to simplify the meaning.What is
Philosophy?

• Comes from the Greek philosophia, which means
  love of knowledge.
• Branch of knowledge or academic study devoted to
  the systematic examination of basic concepts such
  as truth, existence, reality, causality, and
  freedom

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Huh? What is philosophy?

• Lets review Platos Allegory of the Cave to
  help us understand philosophy.

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Allegory of the Cave
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Closure

• Make a list of
• What other types of questions are worthy of
  asking and pondering?
• For example What is reality? What does it mean
  to be real?
• Share your questions.
• Choose a question to attempt to answer for
  homework. Remember you are a philosopher, so
  there is no right or wrong. You just need to
  explain or justify your logic.
• Written Response should be a paragraph or two.

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Closure

• Write down Homework
• Writing Assignment Write a short essay answering
  the following question What is your life
  philosophy?
• What is important to you?
• What kind of person do you see yourself as or
  hope to be?
• How do you describe the world around you?