Works and Days, by Hesiod and All the World’s a Stage, by Shakespeare: Works and Days talks about the five ages of man. The stages are: the golden age, silver age, bronze age, age of heroes, and the iron age. Each “age” is a different race of humans that were created, the golden age lived during a peaceful. The silver age lived in foolishness, the bronze age were the race of war, the age of heroes were the demigods, and finally the iron age is the the race that we are apart of today. All the World’s a Stage divides life into seven sections, the baby, the school-boy, the lover, the soldier, the justice, the old man, and then finally death.
Chapter XIII, by Hobbes: The chapter talks about how people are equal in mind and body. It also talks about how humans will do anything to keep themselves safe from harm and death and to succeed they have to get along with others. The article also talks about how we always want to be the best and that we are driven to war because of that. The most important point of the article is that humans need a common power to keep themselves in line. …show more content…
One example he gives is that philosophy and science both look at the world, but they just compare it differently. He also breaks philosophical questions into three areas. The first is the interest in humans, the second is they have answers but they can’t settle on one answer, and the questions can’t be decides on by science, faith, or common sense. He also talked about the three areas of philosophy, metaphysics which studies nature and reality, Epistemology which looks at the nature of knowledge, and the value theory which studies beauty and how humans should live