1.1 - Introduction

Question 1

Which question did Socrates ask Theaetetus?

Answer 1

What is knowledge?

Question 2

Name 3 more questions related to knowledge.

Answer 2

how can we justify knowledge, what is the ultimate source of knowledge, what is the method by which we gain knowledge?

Question 3

Name 2 rival approaches to those philosophical questions.

Answer 3

Rationalism and empiricism.

Question 4

Explain what rationalism means.

Answer 4

Maintains that true knowledge about reality derives from the proper use of our reasoning capacities (intellect, reason, ratio). We cannot generate ideas by using our sensory capacities alone (Plato)

Question 5

Explain what empiricism means.

Answer 5

Claims that not reason, but sense experience is the ultimate source of knowledge. The senses are reliable indicators of what reality is like (Aristotle).