Philosophical skepticism

The strength and amount of the Innate Concept differs with the ideas claiming to be innate. The further an idea seems distant from experience through mental processing the more we can rely on that experience. Although, experiencing pain our perception of the former thoughts is a more assuring in being innate. The Innate Concept and Knowledge are vital to rationalism. However, experience does not deliver the knowledge we get from reason. Reason is considered to be more valuable than experiences…

David Hume wants to explain to us a radical kind of skepticism in which the contents of our mind are described into two parts. The first part is impressions, the actual experiences that we have. For example, tasting an apple is an experience that we can have. The second part is ideas, copies of impressions in which we are remembering the taste of the apple. Renee Descartes view of the external world is through God because he is not a deceiver so material objects comes to existence. The idea of…

Wisdom Questions To discuss the wisdom questions, “wisdom” must first be explicitly defined. Wisdom instructs us how to use knowledge- the facts of this world that we understand- to create a better understanding of us and our world. To integrate our knowledge, the following essential questions, what we call “Wisdom Questions”, must be asked: “Who are we?”, “Why are we here?”, “Where do we come from?”, “What do we hope for?”, and “What do we owe one another?”. The answers to these questions are…

proclaims that the life of a philosopher is merely a preparation for death since the mind is most pure when the pressures of the body is felt least. He even informs them that he believes in the soul and the afterlife. After his friends vocalized their skepticism of his beliefs, he begins a discourse in which he attempts to prove the immortality of the soul. In the “cyclical” argument or the argument…

Augustine Against Academic Skepticism: An Analysis of the Concept of the “Testimony of Knowledge” in the Epistemology of St. Augustine This philosophical study will analyze the reliability of “testimony of knowledge” as a foundation for St. Augustine’s epistemology. Augustine seeks to refute the traditional aspects of Platonic philosophy by arguing against the skeptic view of knowledge. The ”academic” (aka. Platonic perspective) of the skeptic is founded on the principles of doubt, which…

believes that knowledge is attained through the senses and not by doubting. Therefore, Berkeley refutes Descartes’ and Locke’s dualism. Berkeley aims to defeat the issues of skepticism and Atheism, for he believes that neither Locke nor Descartes properly captured the essence of God. Consequently,…

Aristotle are three of the most influential figures in the history of Western philosophy. Collectively, they revolutionized the fields of science, rhetoric, ethics, theater, music, logic, and politics. Their predominant contribution, though, was their philosophical teachings. To some extent, the overall progression of Western culture can be attributed to their work, and they influenced many contemporaries who carried on their legacy.…

During the Scientific Revolution there was a para dime shift which caused an era of questioning and skepticism. The religious assumptions that guided the thought of the medieval scholars were abandoned in favor of mathematics and mechanical metaphors. This led to the Enlightenment period where many people challenged tradition and faith with scientific methods. This created a philosophical, spiritual, economical, and cultural revolution that would change the way people thought forever. Throughout…

Hi Khadijah! It was great hearing from you. I found the link you attached to be really fascinating. I had earlier mentioned to you about the uncertainty in empirical sciences such as biology. This uncertainty exists mainly because of three problems: Sensations, Induction, and Theory Ladenness. Complete accuracy of our sensations will not be entirely attainable because of their interdependency in proving one’s certainty (Barseghyan Hakob). With regard to Induction, our experience is always…

begins to wonder who she really is in a critical way. She wonders if her name and appearance matter in the question of who she really is. She realizes these questions are easy to think about but almost imposable to answer. Sophie begins her path to philosophical thinking. We see that Sophie is taking these questions seriously, she does not want to continue her life throwing these questions aside. We also see that Sophie is willing to go against authority figures that hinder her thirst for…