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pugnacious proposition

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where and how do we start looking for truth

Kierkegaard

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foundationalism

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unless you can form solid foundation of knowledge and certainty you can’t learn
you can always go back to your foundation and start new

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Geworfinheit

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throwness/state of being thrown into existence into certain world
embrace it or change it
Kierkegaard

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presuppositions

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come from context of world we were thrown into

you can never wash these away

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Hermeneutics

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applying what you read from long ago to present day

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3 aspects of interpretation

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explain
translate (interlingual or intralingual)
proclaim

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3 words for love

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philia
agape (unconditional love–used in scripture)
eros (sexual–lower form of love)

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Socrates love story

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told by diotima
poros=god penia=goddess
poros got drunk at party at mt. olympus and passes out. penia sees him unconcious and rapes him and becomes pregnant and has a son. son is combo of them (poros=god of plenty/fullness penia=goddess of poverty/emptiness) love=fullness that is empty

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erotic drive

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desire for what you do not have

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socratic method

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method of dialogue to learn

questioning to gain wisdom

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question of suicide

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if yes–life has no meaning, no reason to study philosophy

if no–life has meaning

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Hermeneutics of finitude

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finite–has beginning and end

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principle of fallibility

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open to failure

  1. at best our interpretations are correct but incomplete
  2. our interpretations are wrong
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Hermeneutics of suspicion

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comes from deception and sin

opinion based on ulterior motives

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ontology

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study of being

“i think ____ is real and i think ____ is not real.”

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Great Chain of Being

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distinction between kinds of being

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Polarities

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  1. tension between One and Many

2. tension between appearance and reality

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Many

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leaves open possibility for chaos
plurality raises issue of difference which causes uncomfort and uncertainty
uncomfort can lead to violence (Nazis)

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Parmenides on One/Many

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disregards many
if you accept there is plurality then you have to accept concept of non/being or nothing (concept of nothing must be wrong bc you’re always thinking about something)

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synthesis

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becoming

acorn is not an oak tree but it can become one but then it won’t be an acorn

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Hereclitus on appearance/reality

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can’t just dismiss senses
unless you have many you don’t have one
difference and change in many is what unifies it (take out many you find chaos)
tension/conflict=idea of being bc you want things in tension (universe=tension produced by interactions of many)

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plato’s ontology

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driven by epistemology (study of knowledge)

idea of truth, justice, good, and virtue all have 1 meaning (objectivity)

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2 aspects to reality

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  1. idea (reality of ideas

2. matter (reality of matter in which ideas are expressed)

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standard of good

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criteria that applies to everyone

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ideas (forms)
one soul/mind lower forms and higher forms (highest=sun) eternal/immortal
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shadows (types)
many body (matter) temporal/mortal (beginning and end)
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apriori knowldedge
knowledge prior to experience
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anamnesis
to remember | remembering forms we have forgotten at birth
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death
return of soul to the forms and body to matter | return to knowing all forms at death
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4 theories of knowledge
rationalism empiricism transcendental philosophy intuition
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rationalism
Descartes way to knowledge is through reason/logic cartesian philosophy leads to certainty
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empiricism
Locke and Hume knowledge comes through sensation(experience) experimental method in science
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transcendental philosophy
Kant (awakened by Hume's ideas) | explains why something is the way it is
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intuition
traditionally suspect about this theory immediacy (what you feel immediately in the moment) based on emotion and feeling
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Descartes on rationalism
looking for certainty (did not know with certainty that any of his knowledge was true) knew he wouldn't find it through his senses driven by doubt
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Descartes reasons to not trust senses
1. senses deceive you 2. senses also involved in dream state (not reality) 3. there may actually be some evil being playing a practical joke on us
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necessary truths of logic
1. mind exists--doubting=thinking and if there is thinking there is a thinker 2. God exists--like comes from like so perfection comes from perfect mind but he does not have perfect mind because he doubts therefore there is second mind that is perfect (God)
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probability of senses
3. knowledge of the world--morally perfect God wouldn't deceive us so the world won't deceive us (has capability to but we have mechanisms to avoid)
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Locke on empiricism
before we know anything we have a tabula rasa (blank slate) with first sensation comes first idea all ideas come from sensual experience which produces a mental image
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sources of ideas
sensation | reflection (able to create new ideas from ideas of sensation)
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types of ideas
simple (solidity) | complex-- based on # of different ideas (beauty)
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types of qualities
primary (qualities of object--solidity) | secondary (qualities somehow affected by our senses--temp.)
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Hume on empiricism
skepticism (you can never be sure--play odds of what's right) assume event A causes event B--not denying causality just skeptical about it
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Kant on transcendental philosophy
why can we reach consensus/agreement? concepts functionally meaningless without experience (concepts without sensation are empty and sensations without concepts are blind) causal relationship between our thoughts
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explanations of intuition
supernatural-- knowledge that has come as a gift (from God) | natural-- can be traced back to rational reasoning
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4 theories of truth
1. correspondence (adequation): common sense (empiricism and 2 world view) 2. coherence (consistency): rationalism 3. pragmatic: whatever works (idea=true if it gives result that works)--who decides what it means to work? 4. revelatory: allows us to talk about truth in context of esthetics, ethics, and theology

Intro to Philosophy (2 decks)

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