Ancient Greek Influences on Philosophy
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- Plato (437-347)
- Plato uses the analogy of the cave
to show the relationship between the material world and the higher word and the
ignorance of humanity.
- The Analogy of the Cave
- The prisoners- people in the material world
- The shadows- false reality
- The cave- the material world
- The outside world- enlightenment
- The sun- the form of good/true knowledge/god
- The journey out of the cave- struggle of enlightenment
- The return to the prisoners- fear of enlightenment
- The chains- Government/ Culture
- Plato (437-347)
- Plato uses the analogy of the cave
to show the relationship between the material world and the higher word and the
ignorance of humanity.
- The Analogy of the Cave
- The prisoners- people in the material world
- The shadows- false reality
- The cave- the material world
- The outside world- enlightenment
- The sun- the form of good/true knowledge/god
- The journey out of the cave- struggle of enlightenment
- The return to the prisoners- fear of enlightenment
- The chains- Government/ Culture
- The Analogy of the Cave
- State Of Flux
- Cannot Know reality when everything is constantly changing
- The world is transient
- "Substance is changeable "
- There must be a first cause, an unmoved mover
- The world is transient
- You cannot step into the same river twice”
Heraclitus
- Cannot Know reality when everything is constantly changing
- The world is transient
- "Substance is changeable "
- There must be a first cause, an unmoved mover
- The world is transient
- Cannot Know reality when everything is constantly changing
- Cannot Know reality when everything is constantly changing
- The Two Worlds
- Eternal/ Platonic World
- Immortal Souls
- Innate a-priori knowledge
- Concepts of the perfect form
- Concepts of the perfect form
- Innate a-priori knowledge
- Reality
- Forms give physical objects what reality they
have because of their resemblance
- The shadows in the Allegory of the Cave only had
any kind of existence because of their resemblance to their corresponding
physical objects.
- The shadows in the Allegory of the Cave only had
any kind of existence because of their resemblance to their corresponding
physical objects.
- The shadows in the Allegory of the Cave only had
any kind of existence because of their resemblance to their corresponding
physical objects.
- Forms give physical objects what reality they
have because of their resemblance
- Goodness
- Most Important Form
- Like the Sun in the Analogy of the cave
- Like the Sun in the Analogy of the cave
- Like the Sun in the Analogy of the cave
- Most Important Form
- Phenomena
- Illusions that decay and die
- The material world
- Illusions that decay and die
- Concepts
- Ideals that are unchanging and perfect
- The eternal world
- The material world
- The eternal world
- Phenomena
- Illusions that decay and die
- Illusions that decay and die
- Ideals that are unchanging and perfect
- Dualism
- Body And Soul exist seperatley
- Cycle of Opposites
- Dualism
- Body And Soul exist seperatley
- Cycle of Opposites
- Cycle of Opposites
- Immortal Souls
- Innate a-priori knowledge
- Innate a-priori knowledge
- Body And Soul exist seperatley
- Dualism
- Cycle of Opposites
- Body And Soul exist seperatley
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- Plato uses the analogy of the cave
to show the relationship between the material world and the higher word and the
ignorance of humanity.
- The Analogy of the Cave
- State Of Flux
- You cannot step into the same river twice”
Heraclitus
- You cannot step into the same river twice”
Heraclitus
- The Two Worlds
- Eternal/ Platonic World
- Reality
- Forms give physical objects what reality they
have because of their resemblance
- Forms give physical objects what reality they
have because of their resemblance
- Goodness
- Most Important Form
- Most Important Form
- Concepts
- Ideals that are unchanging and perfect
- The eternal world
- The eternal world
- Ideals that are unchanging and perfect
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- Plato uses the analogy of the cave
to show the relationship between the material world and the higher word and the
ignorance of humanity.
- Aristotle (384-322)
- The four causes
- 3.Formal Cause- What are its characteristics?
- A chair has four legs and a seat
- 2.Efficient Cause- How did it happen?
- A carpenter made the chair
- 4.Final Cause- What is its purpose?
- A chairs purpose is To be sat on
- 1.Material Cause- What is it made of?
- A Chair is made of wood
- "Four Kinds"
- Metaphysics book 12
- "that there must be an immortal, unchanging being
- "there is a substance which is eternal and unmovable and separate from sensible things"
- Metaphysics book 12
- God thinks only of himself and knows nothing of our existance
- 3.Formal Cause- What are its characteristics?
- Teleology
- Everything has a purpose
- Something is good when it fulfills its purpose
- Eudaimonia
- 4.Final Cause- What is its purpose?
- A chairs purpose is To be sat on
- Something is good when it fulfills its purpose
- Everything has a purpose
- Influenced Aquinas and the design Argument
- The Prime Mover
- Metaphysics book 12
- "that there must be an immortal, unchanging being
- "there is a substance which is eternal and unmovable and separate from sensible things"
- Newton’s third law of motion:‘action and reaction are equal and opposite’
- Badness/evil is a lack of perfection that god has
- We are drawn towards God and to reach the perfection that he is
- Metaphysics book 12
- The four causes
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