Question 1 In meditation 1 his whole goal was to rethink everything he has learned throughout his life and make sure it was all true. He decided to do this because there were somethings he had learned in childhood that he found out to be false later in life. Descartes decided to breakdown the simplest of opinions because he didn’t trust the way he came about the knowledge. He didn’t trust the way he learned it because he had learned most of his knowledge through his senses, but then he realized his senses could be deceived at any time. He asked himself if he really exists, and there is where cogito ergo sum came from. Cogito Ergo Sum means “I think, therefore I am” in English. This means that if something thinks, then it exists. He had came
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There is one place in Phaedrus that Socrates speaks for 19 paragraphs straight, and in paragraph 6 he talks about 3 different types of knowledge. The first type of knowledge he speaks of is true knowledge. He describes this type of knowledge as “...the colourless, formless, intangible essence, visible only to mind, the pilot of the soul.” He describes it in this way to stress the fact that knowledge isn’t a real thing. It is something that only the mind can use. It isn’t useful for anything but the mind. True knowledge is not an item, but a product of the mind. The second type of knowledge that is mentioned is divine intelligence. He says that it is common knowledge that is shared with everybody that has a mind to process it. He also says that it is being nurtured and cared for by everybody that is in possession of it. It is believed that it goes around the world from person to person until it makes a full loop back to the people who already knew about it. The third type is knowledge absolute. It is just how it sounds. Knowledge that is absolute, and there is no way of proving it false. Many people believe all the knowledge they have is absolute knowledge, but this is never the …show more content…
He believes this because anybody who says something has a soul, so then the knowledge they spread also has a soul. He believes writing to be a worse way of spreading knowledge, because it doesn’t have a soul.
Question 3
Hume’s theory of knowledge vs. Plato’s theory of knowledge has always been a widely debated topic, with people on either side. Plato’s theory of knowledge is known as the Rationalism, and Hume’s theory is called Empiricism. Rationalists including Plato believe there are multiple ways of gaining knowledge other than just your senses. They think that some of the knowledge they have couldn’t have been gained through the senses because the conclusions were made in their head. Hume and the empiricists believe that senses are the only way we can gain knowledge. They try to prove this is true by using what rationalists say is knowledge gained through something other than the senses, and proving that is it actually gained through knowledge. They both believe that knowledge is gained through the senses. The disagreement comes in with how much is gained through the
There is one place in Phaedrus that Socrates speaks for 19 paragraphs straight, and in paragraph 6 he talks about 3 different types of knowledge. The first type of knowledge he speaks of is true knowledge. He describes this type of knowledge as “...the colourless, formless, intangible essence, visible only to mind, the pilot of the soul.” He describes it in this way to stress the fact that knowledge isn’t a real thing. It is something that only the mind can use. It isn’t useful for anything but the mind. True knowledge is not an item, but a product of the mind. The second type of knowledge that is mentioned is divine intelligence. He says that it is common knowledge that is shared with everybody that has a mind to process it. He also says that it is being nurtured and cared for by everybody that is in possession of it. It is believed that it goes around the world from person to person until it makes a full loop back to the people who already knew about it. The third type is knowledge absolute. It is just how it sounds. Knowledge that is absolute, and there is no way of proving it false. Many people believe all the knowledge they have is absolute knowledge, but this is never the …show more content…
He believes this because anybody who says something has a soul, so then the knowledge they spread also has a soul. He believes writing to be a worse way of spreading knowledge, because it doesn’t have a soul.
Question 3
Hume’s theory of knowledge vs. Plato’s theory of knowledge has always been a widely debated topic, with people on either side. Plato’s theory of knowledge is known as the Rationalism, and Hume’s theory is called Empiricism. Rationalists including Plato believe there are multiple ways of gaining knowledge other than just your senses. They think that some of the knowledge they have couldn’t have been gained through the senses because the conclusions were made in their head. Hume and the empiricists believe that senses are the only way we can gain knowledge. They try to prove this is true by using what rationalists say is knowledge gained through something other than the senses, and proving that is it actually gained through knowledge. They both believe that knowledge is gained through the senses. The disagreement comes in with how much is gained through the