Through the works of Greek artists, playwrights, and philosophers, one can examine timeless metaphysical conflicts such as; good vs. evil, order vs. chaos, stability vs. flux, relativism vs. absolutism and cosmic balance and harmony. The Greeks were materialists. Their self-indulging ideals were expressed in the excessive regard for beautiful, worldly things and concerns. They used their art to show the glory of man. The sculptors of the Golden Age aimed to create graceful, st

In ancient Greece, public drama was more than drunken orgies. It was a form of public education. It dealt with issues of importance to the people, such as; the authority of the leaders, the power of the people, questions of justice, morality, wars, peace, the duties of the gods, family life and city living. Aeschylus wrote about the furies and how they punished man for wrongdoings. This shows that he believed that chaos would be punished because order (and law) is the ideal state. Sophocles is best known for his pornographic and incest-filled plays of Oedipus and Antigone. Those plays dealt with family and civic loyalty. The Greeks emphasized, particularly in their plays, the importance of loyalty as a goal to strive for.

stability and permanence were the underlying conditions of the universe,” as well as the invention of the revered Pythagorean triangle- an algebraic concept that haunts freshman everywhere. Heroditus hypothesized that change was the basic condition of reality. He further claimed that all permanence was false. Thus he saw things as naturally being in flux rather than a stable state. Hippocrates was the father of medicine. He argued the role of religion in medicine and diseases and concluded that every disease has a natural explanation. The philosophers questioned themselves and the world in philosophical (think The Karate Kid) ways like; what would happen if things that were wrong were seen by society as acceptable? What, for example, if society condoned murder? Socrates was one who argued this point of view. He stressed truth as absolute, not chan

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