For Plato, the only suitable instrument for knowledge of the real world is reason and understanding. He defines understanding as the highest activity of the soul and reason as the second-highest activity of the soul. (Republic, 511c) These activities are necessary to glimpse the things of the real word, the actual Forms contained in the world of Forms. (Republic, 509d). For Plato, true Knowledge was the Knowledge of these real things. (Republic, 509e). For him, all Knowledge was Knowledge of something that exists because what does not exist is nothing, of which it is impossible to have Knowledge. (Republic, 477e) Through the proposition that knowledge and opinion are different capacities, Plato infers that knowledge and opinion must be directed at different objects, though our daily experience tells us otherwise. Thus, Plato comes to the conclusion that no subject that we can have opinions on can be known. This is a very nonsensical conclusion and Kant's discussion of ideas and understanding helps...
Conventional opinion and knowledge is what Kant may call a pure form of understanding, a Category. However, Opinion and Knowledge in the sense that Plato uses it is only a pure form of reason, an Idea. This is Plato created new definitions and rules for Opinion and Knowledge, which did not comport with our existing understanding of them. Thus, the reason Plato argued that we could never see these Forms, e.g. Knowledge and Opinion, through sense-perception was that they cannot be experienced. The Theory of Ideas is difficult and even impossible to refute because they can never be experienced, partly because, having never experienced them, we would not be able to recognize them.
Kant; Adam Smith Locke: primary qualities, secondary qualities, substance Kant: Judgment of perceptions, judgment of experience, categories of the understanding Explain all six terms above. Does Kant's position (relevant to those terms) different from Locke's? Is Kant (on these terms) able to deal with some of the problems Locke encountered (when using these terms)? According to John Locke, "the primary qualities of objects are their real qualities," such as "solidity, extension, figure,
Kant, Rousseau, Locke In his book Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, how does Kant apply these concepts? Discuss Kant's EACH use of: - sensibility - transcendental idealism - objective reality - understanding - Copernican revolution The philosophical concept of transcendental idealism holds that the subjective qualities of human perception affect how we perceive certain objects, and experience is not simply grounded in the qualities of 'things in and of themselves.' We perceive
Philosophy Nietzsche often identified life itself with "will to power," that is, with an instinct for growth and durability. This concept provides yet another way of interpreting the ascetic ideal, since it is Nietzsche's contention "that all the supreme values of mankind lack this will -- that values which are symptomatic of decline, nihilistic values, are lording it under the holiest names" (Kaufmann 1959). Thus, traditional philosophy, religion, and morality
Besides this, one can, as a separate undertaking, show these people later the way of reasoning about these things. In this metaphysics, it will be useful for there to be added here and there the authoritative utterances of great men, who have reasoned in a similar way; especially when these utterances contain something that seems to have some possible relevance to the illustration of a view. (13) By contrast, Mercer
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