principles exist‚ holds for many philosophers many important implications. There are many examples of philosophers who at various times in the history of philosophy have put forward this theory in order to locate the source of valid knowledge. Famously‚ Plato claimed that knowledge procured from the senses is invalid. That the data received is merely a reflection or a shadow of reality and that the pure‚ true image of reality is imprinted upon our souls before birth. Without the possibility of any innate
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Principles like those Parmenides assumed are said in contemporary jargon to be a priori principles‚ or principles of reason‚ which just means that they are known prior to experience. It is not that we learn these principles first chronologically but rather that our knowledge of them does not depend on our senses. For example‚ consider the principle “You can’t make something out of nothing.” If you wished to defend this principle‚ would you proceed by conducting an experiment in which you tried
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highly influential French philosopher‚ mathematician‚ scientist and writer. Many elements of his philosophy have precedent in late Aristolelianism and earlier philosophers like St. Augustine. Descartes was a major figure in 17th century continental rationalism‚ later advocated by Baruch Spinoza and opposed by the empiricist school of thought consisting of Locke‚ Berkeley‚ and Hume. His most famous statement is: Cogito ergo sum‚ translation in English I think therefore I am. Descartes employs a method
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as John Locke believe that knowledge must come from experience. Others philosophers such as Descartes believe that knowledge is innate; this way of thinking is used by rationalist. In this paper I will discuss the difference between Descartes rationalism in his essays "The Meditations" and Locke’s empiricism in his essays "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding". I will then lend my understanding as to what I believe as the ultimate source of knowledge. Locke discards the suggestion of innate
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In terms of justice‚ Plato uses political communities and the individual of one’s self and family as to what he thinks justice is. In the Republic Plato states that “ no two people are born exactly alike”. Plato was right about this quote‚ but he uses this quote in general to get to the bottom of what it means to be just or unjust in life for the individual and even the state. Socrates through his conversation with Adeimantus gives information about what Plato thinks justice is‚ he uses political
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Innate knowledge is knowledge that is already in the mind without experience. This is the view taken by rationalists‚ which contrasts against the empiricist view that the mind starts tabula rasa‚ and all knowledge is gained through experience. Plato argued that all ideas or concepts are innate and that when you gain knowledge‚ it’s merely recollecting what you already know innately. The view that we are born with innate knowledge supports the existence of propositional knowledge without any
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with Plato that having your emotions stirred on behalf of a character in a story undermines your ability to control your own emotions? Why or why not? Initially I did not agree with Plato when he states that having your emotions stirred on behalf of a character undermines your ability to control your own emotions‚ after reading and analyzing his reasons for making this assertion I now agree. Plato believes that it is “best to bear misfortune as quietly as possible without resentment (Plato 369)”
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The mind body problem is a how we process things in our life‚ how our mental status and our physical being can learn from one another. How can the mind process anything and it is a nonphysical entity‚ how do people learn from using our minds and our body at different times in our lives? If we see something with our eyes and it has a lesson in the thing we saw‚ how does our mind comprehend what the lesson is in the particular thing that we saw with our eyes? This is what the mind body problem is presenting
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the reliability of knowledge? & What is the criteria of knowledge?” Rene Descartes and John Locke really looked into epistemology and both had different theories to approach it. John Locke looked at empiricism and Rene Descartes looked at rationalism. John Locke was an English philosopher and formed his opinion around empiricism. Empiricism is an approach to doing philosophy stressing experience as the in road to all knowledge. The human being is a blank slate to him. Locke was a moderate
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exact equal‚ i.e. the one and only. Whether or not the specific characteristic(s) used to define self are objectively real‚ i.e. physical attributes‚ or purely subjective‚ i.e. imaginary traits‚ the concept makes distinct one entity from another. Rationalism is the theory that truth can be derived through use of reason alone. Empiricism‚ a rival theory‚ asserts that truth must be established by sensual experience: touch‚ taste‚ smell‚ et al. Rene Descartes‚ a philosopher and rationalist concluded that
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