PHL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Doxa, Episteme, Thrasymachus
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Someone who is good at talking, and persuasive (like protagoras) someone who is very clever at manipulating people. Who do we trust? (possible test question) main concern: how do we differentiate real" philosophers from. Plato"s republic (3: plato says since episteme has this object and doxa has this object, they are radically discontinuous. Because if you were not an immaterial entity like the form, then whatever mode of cognition you have would be a state of a physical body. You would only have a representation of what is out there there is no guarantee that the representation is a good representation (always a possibility of error) If doxa is the representational state, in order to represent something you have to be aware of it and then represent it . The only way you could represent beauty is by first seeing it and representing what you could see.
