History of Pre-modern science and technology

What is Hariri’s main argument

That humanity was able too advance bc of the creation of myths/ fictions

What is Rudolf Bultmanns idea of Demythologization

He wanted to separate the ideas, ethical and theological core from the mythological context - update myths and make them more relevant to human life - opposes Hans jonas

What are Hans Jonas’s ideas

Myths are a symbolic expression of the human condition - Demythologization interprests mythical language in terms of human existence rather than treating it as a laiteral account of supernatural events opposes Bultmanns

What is Mircea Elidade’s ideas

Myths recount sacred events - the phenomena should be understood as they are (context?) We cannot as modern humans understand mythology as it needs to be part of our daily lives - we have to be part of the past society to understand myths meaning 

Why is Gobekli tepe so important

Because it disrupts the idea of the sequence of civilization being Foraging - Agriculture - Settlement - Religion It then changed to Foraging - Religion - Agriculture - Settlement as we see this being the order at GT as these presumed Nomadic groups built religious structures before they farmed and settled - however placing linear progression on diverse ancient societies is counter productive as it reduced ancient peoples

What is Walther Kranzs’s ideas

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What are the scholarly issues regarding Pre-Sokratics

We only really have fragments of Papyri and quotations for newer sources - 2 issues - bc of fragments and conext we wont be able to truely know what they mean - interpretation is an issue - inherent bias and inevitability of interpretation

Thales ideas

Water is the base of everything - earth is a flat disk and floats in water

Heraclitus’s ideas

Fire is the base of everything -