Philosophical Perspective Flashcards
What happened in 600 BCE?
Birth of Philosophy or love for wisdom
What greeks searched for and came up?
Knowledge and answers that are both cognitive and scientific in nature
Study of change led to
idea of permanence
seek natural explanations to events and phenomena around them
Greek Philosophers in Miletus
observed changes in the world and wanted to explain these changes
Greek Philosophers in Miletus
What early philosophers sought to understand?
the nature of human beings, problems of morality and life philosophies
Mentor of Plato
Socrates
Socrates wanted to discover?
essential nature of knowledge, justice, beauty, and goodness.
Socrates’ thoughts which are in Plato’s writing
The Dialogues
Asking questions and engage the person in a discussion
Socratic Method
Someone should be
Skilled in detecting misconceptions and revealing them by asking right questions.
The goal of the Socratic Method
bring the person closer to the final understanding
“The mission in life is to seek the highest knowledge and convince others who were willing to seek his knowledge with him.”
Socrates’ View of Human Nature
the soul helps a person get in touch with his or her?
True Self
Inner Goodness
Virtue
forces people to use their innate reason by reaching inside themselves to their deepest nature.
Socratic Method
Aristocles as real name
Plato
Established the Academy
Plato
Plato’s Metaphysics
Theory of Forms
Refer to what are real
Forms
objects that can only be grasped intellectually, not merely by senses.
Forms
Characteristics of Forms
- Ageless or Eternal
- Unchanging or Permanent
- Unmoving and indivisible
Plato’s Dualism
The Realm of Shadows
The Realm of Forms
- Composed of changing, sensible things which are lesser entities and therefore imperfect and flawed.
The Realm of Shadows
Composed of eternal things which are permanent and perfect. It is the source of all reality and true knowledge.
The Realm of Forms
Knowledge lies within the person’s soul.
Plato’s View of Human Nature
Human beings as microcosms of the universal macrocosms.
Plato’s View of Human Nature
Component of Soul that is rational and motivation of goodness and truth.
Reason
Component of Soul that is non-rational and is the will or the drive toward action
Spirited
Component of Soul that is irrational and lean towards the desire for the pleasures of the body.
Appetites
People are blank. Sometimes, however, judgments are made in blank and blank equal to evil.”
Intrinsically good
Ignorance
People see shadows of reality only and they believe as real and as knowledge.
The Allegory of the Cave
Blank are not real, but Blank are the only real
Shadows
Forms
According to Plato, It begins with a feeling of something lacking
Love
Blank is a process of seeking higher stages of being
Love
Concern were God and Relationship with God
Christian Philosphers
According to Christian Philosophers, blank and blank were the ultimate goals of man
Self-knowledge
Happiness
Sees man as basically good and becomes evil through ignorance of what is good
Greek Philosophers