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Truth of Human Experience

Allegory

World of appearances

Shadow

Prisoners

Ignorant people

Easily Deceived

Prisoners

state of ignorance

cave

Reality of Things

Actual Object

Sun

Widsom, Real Knowledge of the truth

Purpose of Education

lead people out of the cave into a new world of light

Seeing with the mind

Insight

Breaking down a whole into parts

Analysis

To sharpen insight, likeness of two things

Metaphor

Concentrating on one aspect and disregarding other

Abstraction

Concept

Product of Abstraction

establishment of the nature of things

metaphysical

Knowledge is relative

connected to ones perceptopn of things

Man is the measure of all things

Protagoras

Gorgios

No reliable and absolute knowledge

No outside standard of Knowledge

Protagoras

Truth, Stable and Certain Knowledge

Socrates

Psyche

Concept of Socrates

EVIL

Product of Ignorance

drive for action

spirit

the fulfillment of a function or a role

good

Under this person, Profession vs Human Action

Aristotle

Middle ground between Excess and deficiency

Virtue

Related to God

Theocentric

Medieval

Religious Period

having knowledge about knowledge

Modern

I think, therefore I exist

Cogito Ergo Sum

Scientific Revolution

Modern

Rene Descartes

Father of Modern Philosophy

Human Dignity

Contemporary

Ideocentric

ones ways are better than the other

Knowledge about knowledge

Modern

Does God exist?

Mediveal

Is it possible to achieve certain truth using human knowledge

Modern