Who is... Xenophanes. The Presocratic Philosophers

In the world of the ancient Greeks, poetry was a dominant form of literary expression, and so it was only a matter of time before we ran into a Pre-Socratic philosophy expressed in that form. Xenophanes takes aim at the mytho-poetic orthodoxy that Homer's long poems represented in his era. This video will examine how Xenophanes does that.

Bibliography:
1. Kirk, G.S., Raven, J.E. and Schofield, M., “The Presocratic Philosophers (Second Edition)”, Cambride University Press, 1983
2. Lesher, James, "Xenophanes", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/s...
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Music:
"Accralate" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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