Hammurabi: Creating Order Out Of Chaos
The Torah, the Babylonian code, and Greek philosophy, all create order out of Chaos in there own ways. The Torah created a religion for people to follow and trust. Hammurabi’s code gave strict laws to follow, and Greek philosophy was a new way to look at things. Although the torah and Hammurabi's code affect our world today, Greek philosophy effects are current world the most.
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The torah is the 1st ten books of the bible. It has several examples of order out of chaos. Talk about BACKGROUND One is Genesis 8-9 in which god creates order out of chaos by flooding the earth making a covenant with Noah. “Then god said to Noah and to his sons with him, “Behold I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you...that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood to destroy the earth.” An other example is Genesis 21-22 where god creates order out of …show more content…
The punishments from these laws varied with class, and gender somewhat. Though Hammurabi states he believed woman to be equal.
“197:If he has broken a(nother) seignior’s bone they shall break his bone.
198: I he has destroyed the eye of a commoner or broken the bone of a commoner, he shall pay one mina of silver.
199:If he has destroyed the eye of a seignior’s slave or broken the bone of a seignior’s slave, he shall pay one-half his value.” this is an example of
As you can see Hammurabi was able to create order out of chaos.
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Greek Philosophers looked at the universe in many ways. They all had different interpretations of how the universe worked. They were creating order out of chaos in a different way then we've seen before. There way of creating order was to make sense of the world
B.For example the Pythagoreans believed
C.while Aristotle believed
Then there plato who believed
D.As you can see they all had very different views, but they all came to a sense of order out of all the chaos the world provides.
Body 1:
The torah is the 1st ten books of the bible. It has several examples of order out of chaos. Talk about BACKGROUND One is Genesis 8-9 in which god creates order out of chaos by flooding the earth making a covenant with Noah. “Then god said to Noah and to his sons with him, “Behold I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you...that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood to destroy the earth.” An other example is Genesis 21-22 where god creates order out of …show more content…
The punishments from these laws varied with class, and gender somewhat. Though Hammurabi states he believed woman to be equal.
“197:If he has broken a(nother) seignior’s bone they shall break his bone.
198: I he has destroyed the eye of a commoner or broken the bone of a commoner, he shall pay one mina of silver.
199:If he has destroyed the eye of a seignior’s slave or broken the bone of a seignior’s slave, he shall pay one-half his value.” this is an example of
As you can see Hammurabi was able to create order out of chaos.
Body 3:
Greek Philosophers looked at the universe in many ways. They all had different interpretations of how the universe worked. They were creating order out of chaos in a different way then we've seen before. There way of creating order was to make sense of the world
B.For example the Pythagoreans believed
C.while Aristotle believed
Then there plato who believed
D.As you can see they all had very different views, but they all came to a sense of order out of all the chaos the world provides.