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Philosophy 101 Homework 10~ Chapter Five
Philosophy 101: Introduction to Philosophy Summer 2018
What is the philosopher’s way
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Write My Essay For Me- What do you think about Heraclitus’ idea that ‘”very thing is in a state of constant flux or change”?
- Do you agree with Parmenides that ‘that which is real is that which is permanent’?
- What do you make of Plato’s notion of a Form or Eidos or Idea?
- Do you agree with Plato that perhaps there are two kinds of reality: one of Being and one of Becoming?
- Do you agree with Plato that there might be degrees of knowledge and that we have to ascend each level?
- What do you make of the notion of “Innate Ideas”, that is, those that are present at birth and latent?
- Do you believe in the slave boy’s recollection of geometric principles that he has not been explicitly taught?
- Are you more of a rationalist or an empiricist? Explain why?
- Plato/Socrates sees “education as the art of turning around, the knowledge of how the soul can most easily and most effectively be turned around; it is the art of putting the capacity of sight into the soul; the soul possesses that already but it is not turned the right way or looking where it should.” Do you agree?
- Do you agree/disagree with Aristotle that everything in the universe has an ‘entelechy’ or goal or purpose in life?
- In terms of understanding things in the universe, do you agree with Aristotle’s 4 causes or aitias?
- Plato believed that the soul was immortal, existing before birth and continuing after death. Aristotle believed that the soul is a natural phenomenon that gives form and purpose to the body but ceases to exist after the body dies. Which of these two views do you find most compelling and why?
- Do you agree with Descartes’ “Cogito, ergo sum?
- What does Descartes really mean by ‘thinking
- Why is Descartes considered a skeptic? What are you skeptical about?
- How reliable would you say our 5 senses are?
- Which of your 5 senses would you say is most reliable? Why?
- If you had to lose either your hearing or your sight, which one would it be? Why
- Which of your senses would you say is most deceivable and why
- How would you come to know, by what means and process, anything if you were blind?
- How would you come to know, by what means and process, anything if you were deaf?
