Humans’ exploration of knowledge have long before began at Ancient Greek, ever since Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle laid the foundations of Western philosophy. Although some of their theories and findings were rightly discarded along the way by later scientists like Newton, their ways of acquiring knowledge remains very much of use today. I will now discuss which texts have greater influence in my reflection of knowledge.
Epistemological concern was one of the philosophical issues that Plato and Aristotle faced. According to Plato, philosophical reflection is the course to the essential reality, while sense experience exists only in the sensible world as it would most likely to deceive us in the route to true knowledge (Lindberg 14-15). As …show more content…
This, thus, shows us that what we see may not reflect the reality, so to search for real, we should think outside the box and look for other possible alternatives, in this case, escaping the cave. This can also be applied to optical illusions. Taking the 5x5 Rubik’s cube discussed as an example. The center piece of the darker side of the cube appeared to be of different colour than the one we see at the brighter side, whereas, if we cover the surrounding pieces of the darker side of the cube, both appeared to be brown, a way to search for real.
Another thing I would like to add is the two prominent features of modern science; identification of shared characteristics and idealization, which are related to his way of thinking. In modern science, when we try to classify a dog, we will not list out all the properties that one has, instead identify the properties that an idealized dog would have. This, therefore, is the same as when Plato assign the reality to the form (Lindberg …show more content…
How to search for real? And how the world is explained by modern science? But if I had to choose two, I believe that the texts from Plato and Aristotle have greater impacts in my reflection on knowledge, though much of Newton’s theories we now use have undoubtedly changed our understanding of the universe. This is because Plato and Aristotle existed long before Newton, and without the beginning of their findings, we can say that Newton would not have been able to come up with the laws of motion that early and his way of acquiring knowledge would not have been the
Epistemological concern was one of the philosophical issues that Plato and Aristotle faced. According to Plato, philosophical reflection is the course to the essential reality, while sense experience exists only in the sensible world as it would most likely to deceive us in the route to true knowledge (Lindberg 14-15). As …show more content…
This, thus, shows us that what we see may not reflect the reality, so to search for real, we should think outside the box and look for other possible alternatives, in this case, escaping the cave. This can also be applied to optical illusions. Taking the 5x5 Rubik’s cube discussed as an example. The center piece of the darker side of the cube appeared to be of different colour than the one we see at the brighter side, whereas, if we cover the surrounding pieces of the darker side of the cube, both appeared to be brown, a way to search for real.
Another thing I would like to add is the two prominent features of modern science; identification of shared characteristics and idealization, which are related to his way of thinking. In modern science, when we try to classify a dog, we will not list out all the properties that one has, instead identify the properties that an idealized dog would have. This, therefore, is the same as when Plato assign the reality to the form (Lindberg …show more content…
How to search for real? And how the world is explained by modern science? But if I had to choose two, I believe that the texts from Plato and Aristotle have greater impacts in my reflection on knowledge, though much of Newton’s theories we now use have undoubtedly changed our understanding of the universe. This is because Plato and Aristotle existed long before Newton, and without the beginning of their findings, we can say that Newton would not have been able to come up with the laws of motion that early and his way of acquiring knowledge would not have been the