General Flashcards
What philosopher has a cosmological metaphysical view?
Cordova
Which philosopher uses the clay pot analogy and is non dualistic
Sankara
What is Parmenides metaphysical view? How does he become enlightened?
-existence monism, one thing exists and that is: it is
appearance and reality, truth vs opinion
-it is and it isn’t
Who said you “can’t step into the same river twice”? What does it mean?
Heraclitus
-all things are changing constantly
What is Plato’s Allegory and what is the general message?
-of the cave
-the cave is our everyday state of reality, the outside is the world of forms and how reality is actually like.
- represent a world of illusion and perception, which doesn’t reflect the truth of reality
Who distincts opinion and knowledge?
Plato
Who says “the study of nature raises us to the knowledge of a supreme being”?
Emile du chatelet
Who says that God creates the best of all possible worlds and uses theodicy to argue it
Hume
Hyperbolic doubt, substance, and mechanism all ascribe to which philosopher?
Descartes
What is Descartes criterion for rationalism?
- he is a thinking thing, the fact he can grasp this clearly and vividly can not lead to falsity
What philosopher says that there are no innate ideas?
Locke
what philosopher has an empiricist epistemology concerning knowledge
hume
