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Aristotle. Poetics.






Aristotle Poetics

Taxonomy of knowledge

  • Ethics
  • Metaphysics
  • Politics
  • Poetics
  • Rhetoric
  • Physics     








 

Herododus

"Father of History." Difference between narratives we've read and history: history purports to be what actually happened.

‘istoria. historia

Historiography. The historian's theory of history. When I was a history major in the 1970's, all the professors & majors were white men.

  1. God's invisible (mostly) hand controlling history. Punishes SIN and rewards goodness.
    God (or Satan) caused WWII.
  2. Great Man Theory. Important men drive history.
    Hitler caused WWII.
  3. Marxism. Class struggle based in economics.
    Depression caused WWII.

Herodotus' historiography: Clash between civilization. East vs West.
molwn labe:
Come take it.

Occident vs Orient
West vs East
Freedom vs servitude
Self-governing themselves vs people who are governed
Citizens vs subjects
Masculine vs Effeminate
Patriachy vs Matriarchy
Civilized vs Barbarians



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