Chapter 2 Flashcards
The Importance and Application of the Traditional Philosophers
What are the 3 famous Greek Philosophers?
Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato
What were Aristotle’s two kinds of Human Excellence?
- intellectual-believed it develops and grows from teaching, time, and experience
- Moral-derived from custom and that is comes to people from nature
What did Socrates associate knowledge with?
happiness and virtue
What is Eudaimonia
it means happiness and flourishing and is associated with living a good life, reaching achievements, and attaining moral excellence
What is Epistemology
the study of knowledge
What is the Platonic Cave Theory?
The Allegory of the Cave is meant to be a metaphor about people being changed and unable to look past the shadows on the cave wall, it’s meant to represent the growth that comes with learning things and acquiring new knowledge and it changing the way you think and act in life, and when you tell others they think you’re crazy because they’re stuck in their old ways in a never changing mindset, unwilling to grow
What does it mean to be good?
Being good means putting others above yourself and making choices that benefit the majority as opposed to just you.
