PHIL 1F90 Lecture 9: 11:10:16

• School: Brock University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1F90
• Professor: Richard Brown

Document Summary

Ceretes is a candy mint: they believe we can never come to reason. If this was true, it would pose serious dangers because they would hate reason itself. Socrates has to investigate what is means for something to come to be and something to parish. How/why do things come to be & pass away = how ought everything to be ordered for the best. Is the earth the center of the universe: do stars move, we just need to ask what is the best. 2 possible answers: because of the relationship between his bones, sinews and skin, because he was found guilty of worshiping false gods and corrupting the youth & athens. Ie: why is joe falling: because of the law of gravity, because he is committing suicide- an act that joe performed. Socrates says: we should(cid:374)(cid:859)t trust se(cid:374)ses, (cid:271)ut (cid:449)e should trust theory, logi(cid:272, we ought to assume the proposition which is most sound (the forms)