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What does the cave represent ?

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The physical world or world of the sense experience

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What do the prisoners represent ?

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Ordinary people in our world

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What do the chains represent ?

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The senses that restrict the way we experience things

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What do the shadows represent ?

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Our everyday sense experiences

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What does the escapee represent ?

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The philosopher who is able to access knowledge

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What does the difficult ascent represent ?

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An illustration that the road to philosophical knowledge is hard

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What does the outside world represent ?

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The real world , the world of the forms

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What does the sun represent ?

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The highest of all forms , the form of good

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What does the return to the cave represent ?

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The philosopher once enlightened fells in his duty to free and educate the others

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What does the difficulty in adjusting to the darkness represent ?

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Once a philosopher knows the truth , it is difficult to experience things as the ordinary person does

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What does the persecution given by the other prisoners represent ?

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Like Socrates , who was executed byy the leaders in Athens , the philosopher will be ridiculed and threatened

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What are some issues with Plato’s analogy of the cave ?

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Plato does not offer proof of the existence of another real,

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Who said that a river is not the same river twice ?

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Heraclitus of Ephesus

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Why is a river not the same river twice ?

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Nature is constantly changing and moving forwards.Such as wat doesn’t stay permanently in a river , it keeps changing

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How are we like a river ?

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We are constantly changing and moving forward

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Who are the presocratics /

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Greek thinkers who developed independent and original schools of thought.
They pre-date Socrates

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What did Thales leave out of his theories which would have been controversial at the time ?

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He left out god

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What is te Socratic method ?

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Where you constantly ask questions to break down the ideas

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Why did Aristotle teach outside ?

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He like to walk and talk and he liked plants

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What are the forms ?

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Ideal , eternal , single versions of things found on earth

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What are particulars ?

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Objects in the empirical world which are merely imperfect copies of the form

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What is the realm of the forms ?

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A place where there i an ideal form for everything that exists

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What is the example of an idea of a cake ?

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There must be an ideal cake and your baked version of the cake is an imperfect copy

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What are some features of the world of the forms (not our world )?

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Each form is one
Intelligible (only known through our intellect)
Eternal
Unchanging
Non physical
Perfect

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what are the feautures of the world of appearances (our world )?
Particulars are many Sensible (only known through our senses ) Always coming in and out of existences Always changing into something else Material objects Imperfect
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Give some examples of some times of forms ?
Beauty , justics and wisdom
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What is the ultimate form ?
The form of the good
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How do the forms affect us in the visible world ?
We are always dissatisfied with the transciende of the world
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How do humans have knowledge of the forms ?
We have seen it before in our past lives Using our 5 senses
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How do we gain truth according to plato ?
Using reason
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What is rationalism ?
Opinion is based on reason and knowledge
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What is the form of the good ?
A perfect , eternal and changeless form existing outside space and time
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What is the one over many argument ?
We can recognise objects as the same sort if thing even when we don’t know why Without the form we cannot explain our samenesss We can recognise the “one “ over “many”
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What is the family resemblance idea ?
There in no one common property that all your family members posses . Rather there are a series of overlapping properties
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What is the third man argument ?
A regress argument that shows that if there is one form of something , then there is infinite forms of it. It is an infinite chains of forms , and infinite chains aren’t possible.for example is ther a form of the form of th form of the form of the form
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What is the ideal standards argument ?
unless there is something which is an unchanging perfect standard, it is not possible to compare and rank particular things
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What is the first criticism of plato ?
Too many forms - would objects which have not been invented yet have a form ?
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What is the second criticism of plato ?
Bad forms - do ugliness and bad need o have a form in the same way that beauty and the good do ?
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What is the 3rd criticism of plato ?
The problem of incorporation - one forms would logically incorporate others
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What is the fourth criticism of plato ?
The three fingers argument
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What is the 3 fingers argument ?
Is there a separate form of medium and something could be in the form of largeness compared too one thing but in the form of smallness compared to something else
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Which form provides order ?
Form of the good
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Which realm is the real realm ?
Realm of the forms
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What is Aristotle concerned with ?
Only reality is this life. The world we live in is th e only place where we can have true knowledge
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What did Aristotle believe a form was ?
Not an ideal , but found within the item itself
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What is the material cause ?
What the object is made of
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What is the fficient cause ?
The agent that brings something about
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What is the formal cause ?
The characteristics of the object
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What is the final cause ?
The reason for its existence . What is its purpose
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What is teleology concerned with
The final purpose of something
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According to Aristotle , what has form without matter ?
God
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What is the definition of empiricism /
Knowledge is based on experience
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What are some characteristics of the prime mover ?
Perfect , transcendent , eternal and pure
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Why is the prime mover unlike the God of monotheistic religions ?
He does not have knowledge of the physical world
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Where is the prime mar ?
Outside time and space
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Explain the one over many argument briefly ?
An object can have more than one form.For example , may have the beauty form but they ae not the same object
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What is the first objection about aristotles theories /
Efficient cause doesn’t tell us what actually happened .it just names the process
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What is a posteriori ?
A statement which is knowable only after experience
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What is a priori ?
A statement which is knowable without any reference to any experience
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What is an analogy
A comparison between one thing and another
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What is dualism ?
The belief in two distinct principles/having two parts
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What is an empiricist ?
A person who believes that all knowledge is gained from the experiences we have through our senses
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What is monism ?
Belief in one supreme being
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What is modus ?
Greek wrk meaning constant change , observed in the world
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What is a rationalist ?
A person who bases their opinion reason and knowledge
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What is teleos ?
The ultimat aim of an object
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What is a second objection to Aristotle ?
Not everything has a purpose .We give things purpose when we use them.
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What is an objection to the prime mover ?
It only works if there is one reason for change,but the could be multiple reasons for change
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Why do the four causes matter ?
The key to knowledge is the empirical method This world is the real world The world and all that is in it has a purpose

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