1. Plato + Aristotle : PLT view on reality

Question 1

all other philosophy is simply —- (—)

Answer 1

Footnotes to Plato

Question 2

why are senses unreliable?

Answer 2

The physical world is always changing, even seemingly static objects are growing, decaying or changing.
Support from Heraclitus ‘you can never step into the same river twice’

Question 3

Plato’s issue with senses being unreliable

Answer 3

People cannot attain true and certain knowledge if the objects they wanted to know about were never the same from one moment to the next.

Question 4

Reality for Plato

Answer 4

The realities of which we can have certain knowledge must be in a different realm, where everything is eternal and stays the same. These realities are concepts that Plato called forms.
We gain true knowledge through our reason.

Question 5

what happens if you rely on senses for knowledge

Answer 5

Plato believed that ‘passions’ or emotions clouded our rational minds – so becoming fixated on things of physical beauty might lead us to a warped experience of true reality