PHL-225 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Manichaeism, Vishvarupa, Disjunctive Syllogism
16 Nov 2016
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Direct realist: direct access via sense experience to what is real. Things we see, smells, touch, taste, hear are real. Socrates: 400 bc philosophy teacher, argued with people, refused to recognize gods, guilty of corrupting youth, was sentenced to death: sentenced to death, charged for corrupting youth for teaching anti-polytheistic arguments. Plato: started academy (first higher learning), mathematician: plato"s arguments: against polytheism: iliad/bible, for the existence of objective/transcendent morality, early dialogue: euthyphro. Plato"s ontology: ontic-dualism two kinds of existence: sensible particular: ordinary objects: dimension, changeable, temporal, intelligible world: pure ideas, no dimension, a temporal, understood by the mind, the mindseye . Aristotle: plato"s best student, opened lyceum (his own school), systematic concept of logic/process of reasoning. Disjunctive syllogism: either a or b: ex: is the good good because the gods love it or do the gods love it b/c its good. Augustine: philosophy infused christian doctrine with neoplatonism. Substance: a real thing with a real identity persists through time.
