PHIL 1000 Lecture 4: Philosophy Notes: Plato "The Republic" Book 5 and 6 Overview
6 Nov 2017
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Review: ideal city/soul, guardians = philosophers, wisdom = love of learning, philosophy = love of wisdom. Knowledge/reality: epistemology cognition, metaphysics, reality: things are the way they are regardless of our minds; independent of us, material objects, constant flux, always changing, mutable. Knowledge: knowledge is set over (aimed at) what is, totally secure, can"t change, guarantees truth, can"t be about what isn"t, fixed, unchanging, immutable, everything is, only nothing is not. Ignorance: only ignorance is about what is not / absence of knowledge, if there"s something, then something is, nothing means there"s no-thing, i. e. absence. 9/12/17: just as sight aims at the seen, knowing aims at the forms, but there must be a. Light in which knowing takes place, just as light allows seeing to take place. This light of knowing is the good: just as ignorance isn"t separate from knowledge, just the absence of knowledge,
