Hume
relations of ideas and matters of fact
Descartes practiced radical doubt which is associated with a philosophy of ___________
skepticism
what element is a symbol for enlightenment in the cave?
the sun
Susan Sontag looks at what art form to think about the reality of Plato's cave?
photography
The night of the symposium, they discuss, what is ____________.
love
cause and effect
Descartes says that 2+3=5 seems to be true, but what reason does he give for doubting this?
evil genius
In what larger work of Plato does the Allegory of the Cave appear in?
The Republic
Susan Brison questions philosophers who use abstract thought experiments to question personhood. What event could we turn to to rethink elements of the self?
trauma
love cannot be a god, because gods are perfect and desire implies a ______.
lack
According to Hume, the most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest _____________.
sensation
What is the one thing that Descartes is sure of at the end of the second meditation?
When the prisoner that was free goes back to the cave to tell the others, what do they do?
the want to kill him
According to Brison, time is associated with the mind and space is associated with the __________.
body
In Aristophanes speech, we were how many genders in the beginning?
three
What contradiction does Hume give to his general rule that ideas can be traced by to an initial impression?
missing shade of blue
Why must Descartes prove the existence of God?
to know he can trust his reason. God as good would not deceive him
Plato does not think we live in "true reality". What is eternal reality for Plato?
the forms
philosophical
Socrates learns about love from a woman named _________.
Diotima
What does it mean if an understanding is a priori?
prior to experience
What is the trademark argument for the proof of the existence of God?
The idea of God is innate. How can I as a finite imperfect being possibly fathom the perfect and infinite?
Where does art fall of Plato's divided line of reality?
lowest rung. Art is a copy of a copy
Name one event that influenced Descartes
Protestant revolution, Copernican revolution, return to Ancient Greek texts
According to Socrates, there are two ways to seek immortality ____ and ____.
propagation of the soul and propagation of the body