socrates and 7 branches Flashcards
plato
suggests that reality is all ideas–there is a world of ideas, which is the real world because nothing changes
bad because nothing will live up to expectations/ideas because ideas are the real world, but they will never come true or be perfect
socrates and democracy
anti democratic because democracy believes that everyone is educated and will make good decisions, but not all are and majority could be uneducated imbesols. believed people running the city should be philosophers
-ideal republic would be strictly controlled from above, a totalitarian government.
socrates and his voice
socrates listens to his voice inside of him, called it God
socrates superstitions
- everything was run by spirits in his time through mythology and gods
- truth is found through the human intellect
socrates wisest at age 30
the oracle declared him that
socrates and inventing new gods, corrupting the youth
- charged with inventing new gods because he didnt practice athenian religion like other people
- he said he believed god in his own way
- official experience is on the personal level, the voice inside of you
- youth were not joining the army, going against religion, etc after speaking to socrates
socrates and eupatride “well fathered”
- fathers role was very important in greece
- socrates represented the opposite, he was ugly, but he was brilliant
socrates and the scapegoat
- blaming problems, someone has to carry the burden
- socrates was the scapegoat of athens because they lost the war and their city was crumbling
socrates and mourning and regret
- athens regretted killing socrates and knew they had killed one of the wisest people that ever lived
- the city had a day of national mourning condemned the prosecutor to death and banished the accuser
sophists
clever teachers who would coach their students in the art of speech making, charged high fees for teaching
-socrates opposed because he claimed he knew nothing so he could even teach at all
socrates and wisdom
understanding the true nature of our existence including the limits of what we can know
socrates and writing
did not write down anything
-plato wrote down conversations, called the platonic dialogues
platonic theory of forms
focus on the form of something to understand what it really is because humans are led astray by the world if they grasp it with their own senses
socrates and art
would have banned most art–it gave false representations of reality
Quantum mechanics
“Physics of possibilities”
Who sees? Does the brain see or do the eyes see?
The brain doesn’t know the difference between what it sees and what it remembers, so, which is reality?
Do our eyes see more than our brain has the conscious ability to project?
We are only aware of 2000/4 billion bits of information we receive per second
We construct matter and give it meaning, but matter really is nothing
Life is thought that permeates everything, we already create our futures as we think about them at the moment
Religion strips people from the need to be responsible, it says accept you will never know, and just take this definition we came up with.
