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Mind Map by bradybaybee, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by bradybaybee
over 11 years ago
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RATIONALISM
- Plato
- Knowledge as recollection: Slave boy example - PROMPTED AND NOT RECOLLECTION
- Allegory of the cave - illuminates the philosophers' task. Shadows on the wall - we believe what we see is real -
ESCAPEE SEES REALITY!
- There are universal forms in the world that are abstract, spaceless, timeless. E.g: a chair has the form
chairness - IT CAN BE CHIPPED AT AND RESHAPED BUT WE WILL STILL RECOGNISE IT AS A
CHAIR BECAUSE OF THE FORM
- CRITICISMS: ARISTOTLE: leap to forms = mysterious PLATO'S
OWN CRITICISM: third man argument - form of man requires
man or equals an infinite regress!
- CRITICISMS: ARISTOTLE: leap to forms = mysterious PLATO'S
OWN CRITICISM: third man argument - form of man requires
man or equals an infinite regress!
- There are universal forms in the world that are abstract, spaceless, timeless. E.g: a chair has the form
chairness - IT CAN BE CHIPPED AT AND RESHAPED BUT WE WILL STILL RECOGNISE IT AS A
CHAIR BECAUSE OF THE FORM
- Knowledge as recollection: Slave boy example - PROMPTED AND NOT RECOLLECTION
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