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PH 221C The Discovery of Reason (3)
A study of classical Greek thought and attitudes as they illuminate contemporary experience, with particular emphasis on the shift away from a reliance on myth and magic for understanding the world to an insistence on rational explanations and the ways rationality and dialogue can collapse into irrationality, fragmentation, disorder, and violence. Includes discussion of several aspects of Greek culture, focusing especially on the presocratics, the Dialogues of Plato, and Greek drama.
