Celebration Shapes

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Celebration Shapes
Which are important Principles of Greek Culture That Influence on Later HAD wide except civilization?

1. That New Religious concepts redefined the nature of gods 2. Interest Sought in Political Theory That the best forms of Government 3. an emphasis on the Importance of Human Effort and Ability to shape future events of human 4.celebration Including Achievements the ideal human form 5. Philosophical and scientific tradition to That Emphasize the use of logic

1. The first beginnings in Herodotus and – more Clearly – Thucydides of narrative history as an Objective of the Past. 2. The Marked Development of geometry, NOT discovered by the Greeks systematized But by them (most famously in Euclid's Elements) 3. The Recognition of the challenge of cultural relativity in the dispute over physis (nature) and nomos (convention) 4. A sense of the distinction Marked Merely persuasive Between Reasoning or Rhetoric, as Practise by the Sophists Such as Protagoras, and Cogent Reasoning logically as Pursued by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle 5. The ideal of the small, self-Governing Political unit – or polis (city-state) – Which Influenced Political thinking in Machiavelli, Rousseau and beyond 6. The idea, Embodied in Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, of the Systematic Pursuit of Knowledge in a collegiate setting: Sometimes the Academy is said to be the world's first university 7. Effects on Theology Were fourfold: (a) Plato's denial of the all-to-human, immoral traits of Some of the gods, Henco the moralisation of the gods. (B) In Aristotle the idea of a single God – the Prime Mover. (C) The idea of God as inherently rational (Aristotle describe Thinking about God as pure Pure Thought). The idea of a single God – monotheism – Came Into Western culture very Strongly Through the Judaic tradition GKS Contributed But the idea of the Distinctive a rational God. (D) Through the recovery of Aristotle's writings in the 12th and 13th Centuries, Christian Theology (Mainly-through St Thomas Aquinas) Tried to synthesis with philosophy Gk Christian Belief.