OWL Flashcards
PHILO[SOPHY]
Philo:Love of Sophy: Wisdom
Socrates’ Crimes
- Blasphemy (athens)
- Treason
- Corrupting the Youth
The Socratic Method of Teaching
1 - ASK them what they believe
2 - Listen
3 - Changes
Epistemology
The theory of knowledge. Knowledge (facts) Opinion - Evidence
Absolutist
There’s one and only one truth to things and that can never change. Part of Plato’s Columns
Existentialist
Fall on Relativist Side.There are no essences of things, they are as they are defined and will change at any given moment.
Rationalism
Truth can be known through logic alone. Absolutist side.
Empiricism
Won’t believe it without physical proof.
Absolutists
use certainty
Relativists
rely on probability
The weakness of Rationalism
Everything starts with a generalization
STAGE ONE OF 4 STAGES OF KNOWLEDGE
Chained, shadows of objects, opinions are of authority
STAGE TWO OF 4 STAGES OF KNOWLEDGE
Unchained prisoner, one example, forms opinion - empiricism
STAGE THREE OF 4 STAGES OF KNOWLEDGE
Prisoners escaped, theorizes generalizations and rationalization
STAGE FOUR OF THE FOUR STAGES OF KNOWLEDGE
“The Mystic View” - Enlightened “grasping the essence of an object”
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
Used to explain the Four stages of knowledge
Descarte
“I think and therefore I am” - The one statement that could never be false.
Descarte was a
Practicist - People will do what’s necessary to get what they want.
Descarte believed
Doubt everything your senses tell you.
The church took away human reason
Descarte gave it back
Criticism of Descarte
He seperated the mind and body too much. And suggested that science and relgion were too different entities that could be friends and help one another. Criticism against dualism.
Rationalism
Logic
Empiricism
Science
Tip about Rationalism
Even if you need a theory to make something make sense, you are using rationalism.
