Misc
Plato & Meno
Descartes
Locke
Blackboard Essays
100
the philosophical investigation of the nature, constitution, and the structure of reality
What is metaphysics?
100
knowledge present at birth
What is innate knowledge?
100
It means I think therefore I am. This phrase serves as proof to descartes that he exists on this earth.
What does Cogito, ergo sum mean?
100
An empiricist
What type of philosopher is Locke?
100
If you could float in a tank, plug into a machine, and live life the way you want to live it, would you? By Nozick it is considered suicide, you have no real experiences and no deeper connections.
What is Nozick's experience machine idea?
200
The study of the natures of knowledge and justification
What is epistemology?
200
Level B is part of the lower forms; a form of knowing that is universal and unchanging. Level A is a higher form; truth beauty justice good--unchanging and eternal forces.
What is Level A & B?
200
The idea of mind and body as seperate entities.
What is dualism?
200
-entity or object in the world -sensations emitted by the objects via impulses and transmitted through our 5 senses -ideas -the human subject
What is Locke's casual theory of perception?
200
Life is essentially absurd, the universe will never satisfy us. Its not that life is not worth living its that we have to make it worth living by rebelling against absurdity and making life good for us.
What is Camus's Myth of Sisyphus?
300
The position that reason has precedence over other ways of acquiring knowledge, or, more strongly, that it is the unique path to knowledge.
What is rationalism?
300
Purely perceptional levels of thinking.
What is level C&D?
300
Descartes believes his senses are always out to trick him. Therefore he is a radical skeptic.
Why does Descartes say he questions everything?
300
size, shape, and weight
What are primary qualities?
300
If the devil were to tempt you with life long happiness, would you curse him for a secure space in heaven or take him on as your new god to have happiness now?
What is Nietzsche's eternal reccurence?
400
experience = knowledge.
What is empiricism all about?
400
Meno's son solves a math problem he has never been formally taught to solve. Plato believes of meno's son that he has a soul which at one time had learned knowledge in a perfect world sometime before his life began. Therefore, this soul is carried on in further generations and by default this knowledge can be recalled with a certain trigger.
What is Plato & Meno?
400
skeptics not accepting beliefs as facts
What is radical doubt?
400
color, smell, texture, taste
What is secondary qualities?
400
Nagel says that there are facts and opinions by everyone about what it is like to be a bat. But there are so many conflicting opiniions that a bat may start to doubt its existance. Can we truly say how it is to be a bat when we have differnt senses than a bat has? No we can't because we cannot transform into one ourselves and analyze the experience without bias from the previous life.
What is the idea behind what its like to be a bat?
500
knowledge can only be obtained through our abilities to reason.
What is a rationalists view on how we learn?
500
Men placed in a cave, with heads and necks restrained so they can only see in front of them view puppet show/shadows on the wall. They have been placed there from birth and known nothing else. If they are released how would they respond to the real world? Socrates says at first they will doubt reality but then djust. If brought back to the cave they will realize all they have learned so far is completely fake.
What is the cave allegory?
500
the stuff inside an experience
What does Jackson say qualia is?
500
That they exist on their own somewhere else in the world. He does not know why or how but he says that they do.
What does Locke say about all the different types of qualities?
500
1. Searching to kill his wifes killer after losing his ability to make new memories 2. Helps #1 on his journey because she understands what its like to lose someone. 3. #1's wife's killer whose real name is John. 4. A man who cannot form new memories after an accident. He is told by his insurance company that they cant support him for his mental health bills. His wife commits suicide by too many insulin shots.
Who are leonard, natalie, teddy, and sammy?
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