When I was 2 years old my family and I lived in a tiny brick building on the corner of A street in Altus Oklahoma, in the parking lot of the church my dad worked at. One day there was a white pick up truck parked in the parking lot, closer to the church, and the janitor of the church was giving away Labrador puppies. There were a few in the truck bed and one in the truck, the only boy and the janitor was not giving him away. My family had been wanting a pet and this was the perfect opportunity so my mom, dad, sisters and I walked over and we adopted my first pet, Hailey. We walked back over to the house and put her in the back yard and my sisters and I played with her. I did not get to play long because I was only 2 and my mom did not want
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Initially I had decided to write this paper on Aristotle’s epistemic belief system; however, I will be honest, I did not enjoy reading the sources I had picked out, nor did I have an easy time even knowing where to start, so I decided to change it up a little bit. I then decided to narrow it down to his views on memory and his virtue epistemology, but when it came time to write on his virtue epistemology I couldn’t find what I wanted because most of the time scholars would not write enough on it for me, so I went back to the drawing board. I wanted to keep Aristotle in it because his ideologies are so influential, even still today, and so I ended up landing on memory. In this paper I will be looking at Aristotle and Plato’s beliefs on memory. I will not be comparing them, but doing a mini study on them individually, seeking to discover their beliefs on the …show more content…
Plato’s theory on forms says that everything that is in our universe has characteristics, these characteristics show us the forms. Think about a red ball for a moment. The ball has the forms of redness and roundness, just to name a couple. Now even if I were to take this red ball, plant some C4 on it and blow it up the forms of redness and roundness would still exist because they are transcendental. They have always and will always exist and they are the most basic and pure that they can be. Even though forms can be combined to make objects, forms will forever be only one thing. Plato describes it like this: If you go into a cave, light a fire, and then hold up a ball to the flames you will see a shadow on the cave wall. Our universe is the shadow on the cave wall, just an image, but the forms are the actual object, when the fire goes out the ball will still be there even though the shadow will no longer be there. Plato believes that the human soul is a form and that humans in the universe are simply a shadow on the wall. I share all of this because Plato believes that you cannot learn something new, you just remember it. Since your soul is an eternal form and you are a shadow, then you know everything, it is just a matter of remembering it all. Nikulin puts it pretty well when he says,
“To know, then, is to recollect, restore and recognize that which is already ours,
Initially I had decided to write this paper on Aristotle’s epistemic belief system; however, I will be honest, I did not enjoy reading the sources I had picked out, nor did I have an easy time even knowing where to start, so I decided to change it up a little bit. I then decided to narrow it down to his views on memory and his virtue epistemology, but when it came time to write on his virtue epistemology I couldn’t find what I wanted because most of the time scholars would not write enough on it for me, so I went back to the drawing board. I wanted to keep Aristotle in it because his ideologies are so influential, even still today, and so I ended up landing on memory. In this paper I will be looking at Aristotle and Plato’s beliefs on memory. I will not be comparing them, but doing a mini study on them individually, seeking to discover their beliefs on the …show more content…
Plato’s theory on forms says that everything that is in our universe has characteristics, these characteristics show us the forms. Think about a red ball for a moment. The ball has the forms of redness and roundness, just to name a couple. Now even if I were to take this red ball, plant some C4 on it and blow it up the forms of redness and roundness would still exist because they are transcendental. They have always and will always exist and they are the most basic and pure that they can be. Even though forms can be combined to make objects, forms will forever be only one thing. Plato describes it like this: If you go into a cave, light a fire, and then hold up a ball to the flames you will see a shadow on the cave wall. Our universe is the shadow on the cave wall, just an image, but the forms are the actual object, when the fire goes out the ball will still be there even though the shadow will no longer be there. Plato believes that the human soul is a form and that humans in the universe are simply a shadow on the wall. I share all of this because Plato believes that you cannot learn something new, you just remember it. Since your soul is an eternal form and you are a shadow, then you know everything, it is just a matter of remembering it all. Nikulin puts it pretty well when he says,
“To know, then, is to recollect, restore and recognize that which is already ours,