Ancient Philosophical Influences - Plato and Aristotle Flashcards
Plato’s Understanding of Reality
We live in a constantly changing, flawed imitation of the world of forms, all things are merely poor copies of their forms, our souls are in the world of forms before we are born and after we die, we are born with subconscious knowledge of the world of forms, the form of good is the highest form, defining all other things in existence
The Forms
The ideal models of which all things in our world are poor imitations
The World of Forms
The perfect and unchanging world that contains all forms
The Form of Good
The perfect and eternal idea of good which defines all things
The Analogy of the Cave
The role of philosophers in the physical world
The Cave
The physical world
The Shadows
The world as we perceive it, worse versions of the forms in the world of forms
The Outside
The world of forms
The Chains
The ignorance of non-philosophers
The Fire
A flawed version of the form of good
The Prisoners
Non-philosophers
The Escaped Prisoner
Plato and other philosophers
The Sun
The form of good
Aristotle’s Understanding of Reality
The only world in existence is the one we reside in, nothing can be believed unless there is empirical evidence for it, the world was created by the prime mover, the prime mover is a perfect entity with no knowledge of humanity, it keeps the world ordered and whole
Empiricism
We can only belief things if they have perceivable evidence behind them
