PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Heraclitus
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Wives and children will also be held in common. After reproductive age all sex is ok except incest. Women guardians can get the same education if they have an appropriate nature (451c-7d) Women"s equality may seem strange, but greeks used to think it strange to exercise naked as barbarians do now (452c) A true philosopher seeks true knowledge (477b) A strange doctrine: knowledge and opinion have different objects. Two pre-socratic ideas are reflected here: beneath phenomena there"s unchanging reality, true knowledge can only be of that reality, opinion is partly conflated with perception i. Heracleitus: taking account of relativity should eliminate the concern. Here and now can be converted to eternal truths. We want to know both particular and general truths. Instead of grasping different objects, the difference might be in how firmly we grasp them. Belief is never infallible, but more or less grounded. Theory of forms: (metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, meaning: metaphysics, ultimate reality is unchanging: absolute ideas i.
