Plato Flashcards
rationalism
the primary source of knowledge is reason.
The prisoners according to plato
ordinary people in the world
the cave according to plato
empirical world
The chains according to Plato
the senses that trick us
the shadows according to plato
The shadows are every day experiences
The difficult acsent
The real world and the world of the forms
the sun
the highest of all forms the form of the good
the return to the cave plato
The philosopher is enlightened and feels a duty to tell the others.
The persecution given by the other prisoners
Philospher will be ridiculed for knowing too much outside the prisoners reality like Socrates in Anthens.
Theological interpretation of the cave
God is the full enlightenment in the sun, the person who escapes is the person who comes to Christ and he faces a journey of difficulty through this journey as he enters outside of the cave. The non-believers no longer believe the enlightened believer
Plato’s forms
The good, conceptist ideas such as love, physical living things, inanimate objects.
Forms explained
The ideal view of the world which the empirical world is based off from. such as a perfect circle
particulars
this is our world, finite object, flawed
Anemnesis
soul remembering knowledge from the world of the forms.
meno
Soccrates teaches a slave boy to do calculations questions begin with “is it not?”
Absolutist
Fixed ideas of good and bad
what is the highest form
the form of the good
what is the second form in the heirachy
The universal form
what is the third form in the heirachy
physical living things
what is the last form in the heirachy
inanimate things
4 universal qualities in the forms
love, happiness, hope, joy
The state of Flux
Series of constant change. Cannot step into the same river twice.
Hume
we can create the idea of perfection in our minds.
