Forsure Jake Flashcards
Study of the development of the universe as an orderly system
(Khan) cosmology
Studying is ? For taking a test
Neither
Zenos riddles
Key conclusion
He’s trying to show us that our ideas do not come from this world
Parmenides argument
Having idea in your mind, prices objects of that idea exist
Things cannot come from nowhere nor moved to nowhere
Zenos argument of the line
Since when you divide finite like you create infinite parts, reality cannot be divided
Water is basic element
Thales
Apeiron
Anazimander
Air is basic
Anaximenes
Unchanging God above all gods
Xenophanes
Reality composed of numbers
Pythagoras
Reason/principle is behind flux in universe
Heraclitus
Love and strife
Empedocles
Destruction is impossible and universe composed of uncuttable things
Atomists
All things contain everything else in them
Anaxagoras
Relied on inspiration for truth that few have access to
Poets
Truth available to those who seek it
Presocratics
How would Marx respond to someone who says that capitalism has not resulted in communism in many cases?
Get rid of unions
According to Marx why does changing from capitalism to communism require violence
Bc owners want to stay in charge
What did Marc think was wrong with hegels dialectic
It emphasized the Noetic over the material
His / her ability to each according to his / her need
Communism
His/her ability to each according to his/her deed
Socialism
Hines argument against free will
We are only the sum of our experiences and nothing more
Habituation
Learning things by custom rather than sense or reason
Synthetic
The information in predicate adds information about the subject
Analytic
The information in predicate already in meaning of subject
Humes fork
Apriori analytic and aposteriori synthetic
Solipsism
My mind may be that is in the universe
DIF b/w impressions and ideas for Hume
Impressions are strong …ideas are faint
Spinozas argument against change
Cannot occur from within since the thin would fail to be completely understood
Cannot occur from w/o since notning can exist in addition to all there is
Aristotles doctrine of four causes
Laws that tell object how to develop
Platos problem w/ relationship b/w forms and particulars
He either ends w/ no place for soul / physical world that’s not mere illusion
Nominalists (empiricists) reject platonic universals
A universal falls outside scope of science
Plato argues that nothing we sense is fully real
B/c what we sense is in flaux b/w perfect (is) and nothingness (is not)
Anamnesis
We never learn, we merely recall
Descartes methodology of doubt
His path of knowledge
How does Descartes reach idea that physical world must exist independently of the mind
Since God cannot deceive us, then the world is as we THJNK it is
Chart of forms/souls concerning Aristotle Plato and Aquinas
Plato believes that forms have real/independent existence
Aristotle believes tha forms have dependent existence but are not real
Aquinas believes that forms have real but dependent existence
Plates simile of line chart, left column
Epistemology
Upper left corner about plates simile line chart
Knowledge
Highest form for Plato
Good
For Plato, why are you on earth
Your desires made You irrational
Plato - what or who will release you in heaven
The demiurgee
Aristotle - soul when body dies
It disappears
Aristotles prime mover
Does not know the universe exists but changes shape and
Theory of nature of existence
Ontology
Roscellinus
Found support from averroes writings
Scholastic who argued that having notion of a universal doesn’t mean if has own existence
Scholastic argues universal ideas come after science
Averroes
Islamic scholar who forcefully upheld Aristotle
Avicenna
Medicine
William of champaeux
Northern Iran
Scholastic schlar who argued plates forms did not need physical counter parts
