Reality Flashcards
Reason
The ability to think things through
Rationalism
Testing through reason, a priori (knowledge through reason)
Empiricism
Testing through senses, a pasteriori (knowledge through senses)
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
Prisoners chained with each other facing the wall, with a fire casting a shadow of the objects behind them. One of the prisoners were freed and saw the light of the world. He then goes back to his friends to tell them the truth but was brutely killed by them
The Fire
The Sun (Source of light)
Roadway where puppet showmen perform
Politicians/Government
Shadows cast on the wall
Objects in the world
Ascent to Sunlight
Doing philosophy
Prisoners
Humans
Why does Plato doubt the reality of this world?
Because everything changes so it can’t be real
Plato’s ideas - Convincing
That we are unaware of the true reality
Doing philosophy can let you see the truth
Plato’s ideas - Unconvincing
The reality now for us feel very real
No evidence for the world of forms
