Key Terms: Ancient Greek Philosophy 1: Plato

Descrição

RS Plato
Izzy Noone
FlashCards por Izzy Noone, atualizado more than 1 year ago
Izzy Noone
Criado por Izzy Noone quase 7 anos atrás
40
0

Resumo de Recurso

Questão Responda
Plato (427-347 BCE) Generally considered the greatest ancient philosopher, author of The Republic.
The Republic Plato’s major work containing the Cave Analogy and Theory of Forms.
The Cave Analogy Plato’s story symbolically illustrating the human condition.
The Forms The pre-existing realities in a supersensible realm from which particular things on Earth gain their reality.
The Good The ultimate source of all reality and goodness. Gives life to the forms and, via them, to particular things on Earth.
The Simile of the Sun Plato says that the good cannot be defined, only symbolized. The Sun is the source of all life and goodness, so fits the bill.
The Divided Line Plato’s attempt to give systematic form to his philosophy of knowledge, belief and levels of reality.
Knowledge (episteme) An intellectual grasping of what is in the supersensible realm.
Opinion (doxa) An intellectual grasping of what lies in the visible realm, or the realm of the five senses.
The Third Man Argument Aristotle’s main argument against Plato’s Theory of Forms.
The Parmenides A dialogue, written by Plato, between Socrates (Plato’s teacher) and the pre-Socratic philosopher, Parmenides. Parmenides asks whether even dirt has a form.
David Hume (1711-1776) Hume said that facts and values are intrinsically different things. This has unfortunate implications for Plato’s Good.
The is/ ought gap Hume’s claim that one can never derive an “ought” statement from and “is” statement (ie, that facts and values are intrinsically different things).
RM Hare (1919-2002) A modern critic of Plato’s theory of Forms. He re-states Hume’s criticism.

Semelhante

Environmental Ethics
Jason Edwards-Suarez
Computing Hardware - CPU and Memory
ollietablet123
The Cosmological Argument
Summer Pearce
AS Philosophy Exam Questions
Summer Pearce
F792 Geology Identifying Rocks
Izzy Backhouse
Religious Studies Key Concepts
Keera
religious studies- good and evil vocab
libbyguillamon
religious studies religion and human relationships vocab
libbyguillamon
Car Safety
donaghy_sinead
Unit 1 flashcards
C R
Cell Structure
megan.radcliffe16