PHIL 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dianoia, Episteme, Irony
28 Sep 2016
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God"s existence cannot be experienced through the senses (fairly uncontroversial) Story of abraham: kierkegaard relates this story to faith and basically asserts that abraham"s relationship w/ god can"t be understood by anyone but abraham. Mathematics tell us about the reality we live in (straight line argument) Here socrates is essentially rationalizing his death by asserting that while his body may die, his soul is immortal. 3 main arguments: changing argument, the recollection argument, and the affinity argument. Poets create beautiful falsehoods through their words so socrates didn"t mess with that (hitler example) Socrates says he has no imagination because if he did, he would be thinking of things that are not actually true. Socratic irony: use of ignorance to confuse and expose a person. Evenus is not wise so socrates hits him with some irony that he should join. Socrates in death (kind of unclear on this)
