Knowledge
Reality
Self
Society
Philosophy
100
Descartes: the wax example
What is the role of mind and the role perception in our knowing something
100
Idea/Form
What is Plato's theory of the Forms
100
Soul and body in Plato
What is Plato's understanding of human existence
100
Gadfly
What is Socrates' articulation of the relation between philosophers and the society?
100
Socrates claims that as a philosopher, he is different from the sophists in this:
What is truth?
200
The allegory of the cave
What is Plato's theory of reality and education
200
The realm of the visible and the realm of the intelligible (invisible)?
What is Plato's theory of two realms
200
The chariot metaphor
What is Plato's understanding of human soul
200
Tutelage in Kant, opinions in Plato, prejudice in Descartes
What is obstacle to knowledge in the society
200
Socrates's method of examination
What is a philosophical life for Socrates
300
I only know that I know nothing
What is Socrates' understanding of the limit of human knowing
300
Distrust of the physical world can be found in Plato and Descartes. Why? And what do they find more secure?
What is Descartes and Plato's theory of reality
300
Doubting as a method in Descartes
What is the way to find the certainty of self in Descartes
300
One's relation with the laws
What is Socrates' understanding of this?
300
Knowledge and opinion? in Plato and in Descartes
What is difference between knowledge and opinion? in different thinkers?
400
Can evil be taught and learned according to Augustine?
What is the relation between knowledge and morality for Augustine?
400
The divided line: four sections of objects to be know
What is Plato's hierarchy of metaphysics
400
What can I doubt, what cannot be doubted in Descartes?
What is the method of doubting
400
To dare to use your reason
What is Kant's motto for Enlightenment?
400
Love is being possessed by the gods ~ madness. The beautiful person reminds us of the Beauty itself in the intelligible realm.
What is love's relation with philosophical pursuit?
500
The divided line: four sections of faculties of the mind
What is Plato's theory of epistemology
500
Sun ~ The Form of Good (the sun simile)
What is Plato's explanation of reality?
500
Critique of the mind-body dualism
What is Susan Bordo's critique of the Greco-Christian tradition of mind-body dualism
500
To obey in private sphere and to express freely and use your reason in the public sphere
What is Kant's suggestion for Enlightenment?
500
philosophical courage: Socrates' examination, Plato's cave, Descartes' doubting, Kant's courage to use your own reason
What is philosophical courage? Besides Socrates's death?
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